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Akle Tayyibe [Tasty Dish]—Cooking up belonging in the Syrian refugee foodscape in Turkey
Rottmann, Susan Beth; Kanal, M. (Taylor & Francis, 2023)This article is a study of Syrian women’s food practices in Turkey. Researchers have shown that food matters for belonging, but we need more research examining how migrants use food in memory-work; how they cook to create ... -
At the unsettling limits of collaborative life writing: A memoir of an ethnography-memoir
Rottmann, Susan Beth (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 ... -
Conclusion
Şahin-Mencütek, Z.; Gökalp-Aras, N. E.; Kaya, A.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (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 ... -
Embracing vulnerability in writing migrant lives
Rottmann, Susan Beth; Sayer, R. (Taylor & Francis, 2022)In this paper, an anthropologist and a life writer examine the implications of an ethical and political practice of vulnerability with regards to writing migrant lives. Drawing on research with migrants in Turkey and ... -
Everyday agency: Rethinking refugee women’s agency in specific cultural contexts
Kanal, M.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (Frontiers Media, 2021-11-17)This article proposes an interdisciplinary approach to refugee agency – the capacity to act within structural conditions – using the example of Syrian women rebuilding family and home in Turkey. Our broader objective is ... -
Forced migration and the politics of belonging: Integration policy, national debates and migrant strategies
Rottmann, Susan Beth (Sage, 2023)This research note examines the politics of refugee belonging in Germany, Sweden, Austria, United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Specifically, it explores how migrant belonging is impacted by integration policies and ... -
Integration
Şahin-Mencütek, Z.; Gökalp-Aras, N. E.; Kaya, A.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (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
Rottmann, Susan Beth (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 ... -
Legislative, institutional and political context
Şahin-Mencütek, Z.; Gökalp-Aras, N. E.; Kaya, A.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (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 ... -
(Lived) Spaces of belonging, culture, and gender: Spatial practices of home for Syrian women in Istanbul
Sezginalp Özçetin, Pınar; Rottmann, Susan Beth (Sage, 2022)Combining architectural and cultural anthropological approaches, this study explores the domestic lived spaces of Syrian women in Istanbul to understand how they create belonging in a new social and architectural setting ... -
Logistification and hyper-precarity at the intersection of migration and pandemic governance: Refugees in the Turkish labour market
Nimer, M.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (Oxford University Press, 2022-03-23)This article analyses the governance of migration and the Covid-19 pandemic on precarious Syrian refugees in Istanbul. Drawing from a review of state policies and interviews with refugees before and after the pandemic, we ... -
Protection
Şahin-Mencütek, Z.; Gökalp-Aras, N. E.; Kaya, A.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (Springer, 2023)Turkey has a highly complex structure with stratified legal statuses and multiple actors in migration and refugee governance. The chapter shows how temporality is the key encompassing characteristic of Turkey’s refugee ... -
Reception
Şahin-Mencütek, Z.; Gökalp-Aras, N. E.; Kaya, A.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (Springer, 2023)In this Chapter, we describe the strategic temporality embedded in the Turkish reception system for Syrian refugees. First, we focus on the effect of laws and how they lead to nuances in multilevel governance on the ground ... -
'We always open our doors for visitors' - Hospitality as homemaking strategy for refugee women in Istanbul
Rottmann, Susan Beth; Nimer, M. (Oxford University Press, 2021-09)This article examines social relations for Syrian women in Istanbul by focusing on micro-level lived relationships of hospitality. Through an ethnographic, qualitative approach to key sites of encounter, the article explores ... -
‘We can’t integrate in Europe. We will pay a high price if we go there’: Culture, Time and Migration Aspirations for Syrian Refugees in Istanbul
Rottmann, Susan Beth; Kaya, A. (Oxford University Press, 2021-03)In popular media, it is often assumed that Syrian refugees wish to reach Europe by any means necessary but, during field research in 2018, we found that many Syrians hoped to remain in Istanbul, despite their tenuous legal ...
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