نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استاد دانشکده شهرسازی، پردیس هنرهای زیبا، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران.
2 استاد دانشکده شهرسازی، دانشکدگان هنرهای زیبا، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
3 دانشجوی دکترای شهرسازی، دانشکده شهرسازی، دانشکدگان هنرهای زیبا، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Urban displacement has long been examined primarily through the discourse of gentrification. While this body of work has contributed significantly to conceptualizing displacement, it has simultaneously obscured broader forms of housing precarity, vulnerability, and social exclusion that extend beyond gentrifying neighborhoods and are deeply rooted in neoliberal housing markets. In recent years, growing rental market pressures and the intensifying affordability crisis have underscored the need to revisit and systematically synthesize the expanding and fragmented body of research on urban tenant displacement.
This study conducts a scoping review to develop a coherent and comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship on tenant displacement within the context of rent inflation and housing insecurity. The research design follows the five-stage framework of Arksey and O’Malley (2005), refined by Levac et al. (2010), and adheres to the PRISMA-ScR reporting guidelines. A systematic search was conducted in Scopus and complemented by Google Scholar to ensure broad coverage. The review aims to identify dominant analytical patterns and conceptual gaps within this expanding literature. The search—restricted to peer-reviewed English-language journal articles published between January 2005 and late 2025—included combined terms related to displacement, eviction, tenant, and rent. Studies focusing on displacement in contexts such as gentrification, tourism, natural disasters, or migration were excluded to maintain conceptual precision.
After multi-stage screening (titles, abstracts, and full-texts), 116 studies were retained for synthesis and imported into NVivo 14 for thematic analysis. The analysis proceeded inductively, involving iterative coding and clustering to identify recurrent patterns and meanings. Eight major thematic domains emerged from the analysis, reflecting the conceptual and analytical diversity of the field: (1) conceptualization of displacement; (2) measurement and quantification; (3) individual, household, and community consequences; (4) drivers and risk factors; (5) structural mechanisms; (6) tenant agency, strategies, and resistance; (7) spatial and geographic dimensions; and (8) legal and policy interventions. These themes collectively illustrate the evolution and multidimensionality of displacement studies over the past two decades.
The synthesis reveals an evolutionary shift in the literature, from early descriptive and impact-focused research toward analyses of structural causality and tenant agency. Since around 2016, studies have increasingly interrogated displacement as a systemic mechanism of neoliberal urbanization, linking financialization, state policies, and dispossession. More recent scholarship (2020–2025) highlights tenants as active agents who negotiate, resist, and reframe their position within unequal housing markets, while policy-oriented studies examine regulatory mechanisms and social protection frameworks capable of mitigating displacement pressures.
Overall, this systematic scoping review reconstructs the fragmented intellectual landscape of urban displacement research. It demonstrates that displacement operates as a multidimensional and complex process, having evolved into a key analytical lens for understanding contemporary housing crises. The findings not only consolidate a diverse body of evidence but also identify major theoretical, methodological, and policy gaps, particularly the need for comparative, cross-national, and intersectional analyses linking structure and agency. Ultimately, the study contributes an integrated conceptual map that can guide future research and inform policy debates on housing justice, rental stability, and the right to the city.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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