Browsing Faculty of Social Sciences by Document Type "Book chapter"
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At the unsettling limits of collaborative life writing: A memoir of an ethnography-memoir
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-01)This chapter uses a memoir to examine the limits of anthropological collaboration. I draw on 12 years of friendship and fieldwork that culminated in my writing an ethnographic life story of a German-Turkish return migrant ... -
Bosphorus connecting Europe and Asia: Couple and family therapy in Turkey
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-10-16)This chapter dives into what psychotherapy is like in Turkey and the unique cultural aspects that impact families and individuals. The authors highlight the challenges and barriers they face and their hopes for therapy in ... -
The changing waves of migration from the Balkans to Turkey: a historical account
(Springer, 2015)Ahmet İçduygu and Deniz Sert tell the history of migration from the Balkans to Turkey from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. They relate this history to nation-building, but also to economic conditions and ... -
Conclusion
(Springer, 2023)The findings of this in-depth case study provide insights for generalisations about how strategic temporality may operate in other refugee-hosting countries as well as specific findings about state responses to mass migration ... -
A debate over return migration: the case of Turkish guest workers in Germany
(2016-03)This chapter aims to provide an overview of the return migration of Turkish guest workers and their family members. While doing so, it also elaborates on the theoretical and conceptual discussions of the notion of return ... -
The development of social competence in children with disabilities
(Wiley, 2022-03-18)Children with disabilities experience unique challenges in developing social skills critical to achieve their social goals. In this chapter, the authors first introduce two theoretical frameworks that can guide research ... -
A distant reading of the Ottoman/Turkish serial novel tradition (1831–1908)
(Springer Nature, 2019)The emergence and spread of the Turkish press and the birth of the Ottoman Turkish novel occurred simultaneously in the Ottoman Empire, when the press and the novel largely sustained each other. Most of the early Turkish ... -
Externalising externalisation and bad governance of migration in the EU: Turkey learning from Europe
(Springer, 2022-09-05)While the European Union (EU) might not do likewise, Fortress Europe is definitely enlarging. Reports (see, for example, Akkerman 2018) underline the momentous growth in Europe's border externalisation policies using various ... -
Food insecurity in the age of neoliberalism in Turkey and its neighbors
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)Drawing on national and international data sets, we argue in this chapter that food security is weaker in countries and regions where conflict (military unrest, civil war, etc.) and neoliberal agricultural policies coincide, ... -
From empires past to nation state: Figurative public statues in Istanbul
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)Statues, landmarks, and monumental architecture visibly mark and inscribe meaning into urban space. This is true everywhere, but it is particularly striking in Istanbul. When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in ... -
Governing without control: Turkey's “struggle” with international migration
(Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2016)Since the 1980s, Turkey's role in the international migratory scene has changed substantially, as the country has transformed from being a country of origin to a country of destination and transit. Historical transformations ... -
Integration
(Springer, 2023)Strategic temporality permeates the integration experience of Turkey’s Syrians in a number of ways. First, given their temporary legal status, there is a grey area between reception and integration, which is highly symbolic ... -
Introduction
(Springer, 2023)Just after the local elections in 2019, irregular migrants in Istanbul faced a months-long crackdown. The Ministry of Interior from the Justice and Development Party government (known as AK Party or AKP) gave Syrians until ... -
Issues of ideology and identity in Turkish literature during the Cold War
(2013)In the Cold War era, the period from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Turkey was dominated by efforts of democratization and liberalization, economic growth and instability, intellectual and ... -
Legislative, institutional and political context
(Springer, 2023)Refugee governance has legislative, institutional, political, and discursive dimensions. These components co-constitute each other and reflect the fragments of strategic temporality as a building principal. It is possible ... -
Mad patriots: Militarized masculinities and nation- building in contemporary Turkish novels
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)Nationalist discourse in Turkey is replete with metaphors of militarism, and is built on hierarchies of ethnicity, class, and, of course, gender. -
The making of a national city: From Mezre to Elaziğ
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)This chapter tells the story of an imperial town’s transformation into a national city. It will start with the emergence of Mezre as a government suburb in proximity to Harput in the nineteenth century. With its Armenian ... -
Migrants' uncertainties versus states' insecurities: transit migration in Turkey
(2014)Since the early 1980s, Turkey has become an important route for so-called transit migration flows in the south-east of Europe. People from different parts of the South and East have begun to use the Turkish peninsula as a ... -
Migration from Central and Eastern Europe to Turkey
(Springer Nature, 2018)Until recently, despite the fact that the country had received many immigrants since the initial years of the Republic, migration literature treated Turkey as a country of emigration. Turkey’s position in the international ... -
Netice-I sa’y ve kayınvalide: Şehrin emek coğrafyası
(Istanbul University, 2021)The author Mehmet Tahir, an officer in the editorial office of the accounting section of the Customs Office, followed Ahmet Midhat's recommendation to discuss economics in fiction in order to promote commerce and ...
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