Browsing by Author "Rottmann, Susan Beth"
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Beyond legal status: Exploring dimensions of belonging among forced migrants in Istanbul and Vienna
Rottmann, Susan Beth (Cogitatio Press, 2020-03-25)Migrants with precarious legal statuses experience significant structural exclusion from their host nations but may still feel partial belonging. This article explores two dimensions potentially relevant for this group’s ... -
Citizenship and Intersectionality: German Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Antidiscrimination Laws
Rottmann, Susan Beth; Ferree, M. M. (Oxford University Press, 2008)As European nations grapple with when and how to extend inclusive citizenship to their Muslim minorities, the parameters of Muslim women's citizenship have jumped to the forefront of feminist concern. Much of the debate ... -
Citizenship ethics: German-Turkish return migrants, belonging, and justice
Rottmann, Susan Beth (Sage, 2018-08-01)This article examines citizenship for German-Turkish return migrants attending monthly meetings of the Rückkehrer Stammtisch (Returner’s Meetings) in Istanbul. Meeting attendees call themselves “world citizens” and remain ... -
Cultivating and contesting order: 'European Turks' and negotiations of neighbourliness at 'home'
Rottmann, Susan Beth (Berghahn, 2013-12)This article examines how Turks returning from Germany to Turkey self-fashion as 'orderly neighbours'. By maintaining aesthetically pleasing homes and gardens, keeping public spaces clean, and obeying rules and laws in ... -
Cultivating membership abroad: Analyzing German pre-integration courses for Turkish marriage migrants
Rottmann, Susan Beth (Taylor & Francis, 2022)Addressing research on migration governance, this article examines German pre-integration courses offered to Turkish marriage migrants in Istanbul. The courses were implemented in response to growing concern about the ... -
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 ... -
In pursuit of belonging: Forging an ethical life in european-turkish spaces
Rottmann, Susan Beth (Berghahn Books, 2019-06)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 ... -
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 ... -
(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 ... -
Migration regime and “language part of work”: Experiences of Syrian refugees as surplus population in the Turkish labor market
Nimer, M.; Rottmann, Susan Beth (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 ... -
'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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