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In pursuit of belonging: Forging an ethical life in european-turkish spaces
(Berghahn Books, 2019-01-01)Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of ... -
In pursuit of intellectual discovery: an interview with Michael E. Meeker
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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 ... -
The intersections of illness and literature in the Ottoman Empire: Figuring Émile Zola and syphilis in Halide Edib’s Mev’ut Hüküm
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-07-04)In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire began to use positivism and materialism to socially regulate and reform the empire, and Charles Darwin, Ludwig Buchner and Claude Bernard were among the names ... -
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 ... -
Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status, and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey
This paper sheds light on Syrian refugee women’s negotiation strategies in language learning classrooms and in their broader social contexts from an intersectional perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus ... -
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 ... -
(Lived) Spaces of belonging, culture, and gender: Spatial practices of home for Syrian women in Istanbul
(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
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Making property of a marsh: environment, property, and politics in nineteenth-century Ottoman Ioannina
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-07-04)This article discusses the contested character of property rights with respect to reclaimed land from marshes in the Ottoman Empire through the reclamation project for Lake Lapsista in Ottoman Ioannina starting from 1886. ... -
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Migration regime and “language part of work”: Experiences of Syrian refugees as surplus population in the Turkish labor market
(Sage, 2020-10)The literature on migration, language and employment is dominated by the human capital approach and promotes multilingualism as a universal good. This paper examines the relationship between language and work for migrants ... -
Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-02)This article explores a successful unionisation struggle among garment workers in Istanbul. In the last four decades, Turkey has become a global showcase of authoritarian anti-labour neoliberalism and one of the world’s ... -
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 ... -
New approaches and challenges in Ottoman historical writing
(Societa Editrice Il Mulino, 2023-07)N/A -
Post-imperial crises and liminal masculinity in Orhan Kemal’s My Father’s House–The Idle Years
(Wiley, 2012-09)My Father’s House–The Idle Years is an autobiographical novel by Orhan Kemal, one of the giants of Turkish literature. The novel’s explicit focus is on a boy who grows up pursuing self-realization in a working-class ...
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