Sebnem Koser Akcapar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 660463 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sebnem Koser Akcapar |
| NOMBRES | Sebnem Koser |
| APELLIDO | Akcapar |
| FIRMA | AKCAPAR S K |
| AFILIACIONES | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2168-8871 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
“Diasporic SMOization”
This article examines how war-driven displacement reshapes migrant civil society and ethnic positioning. Focusing on Ukrainian associations in Turkey after Russia’s 2022 invasion, it draws on in-depth interviews across six provinces. Building on diaspora mobilization and social movement theory, the study advances the concept of “diasporic SMOization” to explain organizational transformation during crises. Findings reveal that Ukrainian associatio…
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey
The Oldest Manuscripts from India and Their Histories
This essay examines a copy of the Qur’ān from India, now in the India Office Collections at the British Library. The manuscript, registered as IO Loth 4, belongs to the reasonably large group of early Qur’āns that date to the eighth and ninth centuries CE. While some of these manuscripts have charted histories, what is not widely known is that early Qur’āns also made their way to India. There they have their own special histories, meanings and as…
The role of positive and negative contact of migrants with native people in affecting their future interactions. Evidence from Italy and Turkey
Religious conversions in forced migration
This article examines closely the crucial link between religious conversions of two groups of refugees from Islam to Evangelism by taking up the cases of Afghan and Iranian refugees in India and in Turkey, respectively. India hosts many refugees from different parts of the world despite the absence of international protection laws, whereas Turkey is the country hosting the highest number of refugees since 2015, mainly due to the Syrian conflict. …
South Asian Refugees in India
The Politics of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Turkey began to receive refugees from Syria in 2011 and has since become the country hosting the highest number of refugees, with more than 3.5 million Syrians and half a million people of other nationalities, mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. An important turning point regarding the legal status of Syrian refugees has come with recent amendments to the Turkish citizenship law. Based on ongoing academic debates on integration and citizenshi…
Sites of Power and Resistance or Melting Pots? A Gendered Understanding of Islam through Sufi Shrines in Turkey
Turkey is located on ancient sacred geography comprising shrines or tombs of revered saints. Like in many other Islamic countries, visiting the shrines of Sufis ( ziyaret) and saint veneration is an ancient practice. Based on extensive fieldwork, this article investigates the dialectical analysis of ‘official’ and ‘popular’ religion and shifts in meaning given to ziyaret in the Republican history. This article helps us understand that shrines in …
Banu Şenay, 2013. Beyond Turkey’s Borders
Beyond Turkey's Borders
Turkish Identity Formation and Political Mobilization in Western Europe and North America
Turkish Associations in the United States
Migrant associations have always been an important feature of migrant communities, assuming a significant role towards identity formation and integration in the host society. Such organizations also create an important transnational link between countries of origin and settlement. Using the example of Turkish associations in the United States and their institutionalization process, this essay argues that organizational dynamics of immigrants are …
Re‐Thinking Migrants’ Networks and Social Capital
Existing research on international migration has focused on the importance of social networks and social capital in the countries of origin and destination. However, much less is known about the importance of social networks and associated social capital in transit countries. Drawing on ethnographic research on Iranian transit migrants in Turkey, this paper argues that migrant networks and social capital are equally important in transit countries…
What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey
So far, immigration scholars have mostly taken up the religion issue in terms of adaptation or non-adaptation to the host society and research on the role of religion as carriers of positive social capital in transit countries has not given enough attention. Drawing on the migration histories of two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, converted cases to Christianity and Bahais, this paper will examine the differences and similarities betw…
Conversion as a Migration Strategy in a Transit Country
The role of religion during migration processes has been overlooked by scholars in the past although the relationship between religion and migration has a long history. Normally, religion is considered as an integrating agent, but for some Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, religion and especially religious conversion is used as a tool for migration. This article draws on the migration histories of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey who initially in…
The Politics of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Turkey began to receive refugees from Syria in 2011 and has since become the country hosting the highest number of refugees, with more than 3.5 million Syrians and half a million people of other nationalities, mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. An important turning point regarding the legal status of Syrian refugees has come with recent amendments to the Turkish citizenship law. Based on ongoing academic debates on integration and citizenshi…
Re‐Thinking Migrants’ Networks and Social Capital
Existing research on international migration has focused on the importance of social networks and social capital in the countries of origin and destination. However, much less is known about the importance of social networks and associated social capital in transit countries. Drawing on ethnographic research on Iranian transit migrants in Turkey, this paper argues that migrant networks and social capital are equally important in transit countries…
Turkish Associations in the United States
Migrant associations have always been an important feature of migrant communities, assuming a significant role towards identity formation and integration in the host society. Such organizations also create an important transnational link between countries of origin and settlement. Using the example of Turkish associations in the United States and their institutionalization process, this essay argues that organizational dynamics of immigrants are …
Religious conversions in forced migration
This article examines closely the crucial link between religious conversions of two groups of refugees from Islam to Evangelism by taking up the cases of Afghan and Iranian refugees in India and in Turkey, respectively. India hosts many refugees from different parts of the world despite the absence of international protection laws, whereas Turkey is the country hosting the highest number of refugees since 2015, mainly due to the Syrian conflict. …
Conversion as a Migration Strategy in a Transit Country
The role of religion during migration processes has been overlooked by scholars in the past although the relationship between religion and migration has a long history. Normally, religion is considered as an integrating agent, but for some Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, religion and especially religious conversion is used as a tool for migration. This article draws on the migration histories of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey who initially in…
The role of positive and negative contact of migrants with native people in affecting their future interactions. Evidence from Italy and Turkey
Turkish Identity Formation and Political Mobilization in Western Europe and North America
What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey
So far, immigration scholars have mostly taken up the religion issue in terms of adaptation or non-adaptation to the host society and research on the role of religion as carriers of positive social capital in transit countries has not given enough attention. Drawing on the migration histories of two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, converted cases to Christianity and Bahais, this paper will examine the differences and similarities betw…
Conversion as a Migration Strategy in a Transit Country
The role of religion during migration processes has been overlooked by scholars in the past although the relationship between religion and migration has a long history. Normally, religion is considered as an integrating agent, but for some Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, religion and especially religious conversion is used as a tool for migration. This article draws on the migration histories of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey who initially in…
What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey
So far, immigration scholars have mostly taken up the religion issue in terms of adaptation or non-adaptation to the host society and research on the role of religion as carriers of positive social capital in transit countries has not given enough attention. Drawing on the migration histories of two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, converted cases to Christianity and Bahais, this paper will examine the differences and similarities betw…
Turkish Identity Formation and Political Mobilization in Western Europe and North America
Turkish Associations in the United States
Migrant associations have always been an important feature of migrant communities, assuming a significant role towards identity formation and integration in the host society. Such organizations also create an important transnational link between countries of origin and settlement. Using the example of Turkish associations in the United States and their institutionalization process, this essay argues that organizational dynamics of immigrants are …
Re‐Thinking Migrants’ Networks and Social Capital
Existing research on international migration has focused on the importance of social networks and social capital in the countries of origin and destination. However, much less is known about the importance of social networks and associated social capital in transit countries. Drawing on ethnographic research on Iranian transit migrants in Turkey, this paper argues that migrant networks and social capital are equally important in transit countries…
Banu Şenay, 2013. Beyond Turkey’s Borders
Beyond Turkey's Borders
Sites of Power and Resistance or Melting Pots? A Gendered Understanding of Islam through Sufi Shrines in Turkey
Turkey is located on ancient sacred geography comprising shrines or tombs of revered saints. Like in many other Islamic countries, visiting the shrines of Sufis ( ziyaret) and saint veneration is an ancient practice. Based on extensive fieldwork, this article investigates the dialectical analysis of ‘official’ and ‘popular’ religion and shifts in meaning given to ziyaret in the Republican history. This article helps us understand that shrines in …
South Asian Refugees in India
The Politics of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Turkey began to receive refugees from Syria in 2011 and has since become the country hosting the highest number of refugees, with more than 3.5 million Syrians and half a million people of other nationalities, mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. An important turning point regarding the legal status of Syrian refugees has come with recent amendments to the Turkish citizenship law. Based on ongoing academic debates on integration and citizenshi…
Religious conversions in forced migration
This article examines closely the crucial link between religious conversions of two groups of refugees from Islam to Evangelism by taking up the cases of Afghan and Iranian refugees in India and in Turkey, respectively. India hosts many refugees from different parts of the world despite the absence of international protection laws, whereas Turkey is the country hosting the highest number of refugees since 2015, mainly due to the Syrian conflict. …
The role of positive and negative contact of migrants with native people in affecting their future interactions. Evidence from Italy and Turkey
The Oldest Manuscripts from India and Their Histories
This essay examines a copy of the Qur’ān from India, now in the India Office Collections at the British Library. The manuscript, registered as IO Loth 4, belongs to the reasonably large group of early Qur’āns that date to the eighth and ninth centuries CE. While some of these manuscripts have charted histories, what is not widely known is that early Qur’āns also made their way to India. There they have their own special histories, meanings and as…
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey
“Diasporic SMOization”
This article examines how war-driven displacement reshapes migrant civil society and ethnic positioning. Focusing on Ukrainian associations in Turkey after Russia’s 2022 invasion, it draws on in-depth interviews across six provinces. Building on diaspora mobilization and social movement theory, the study advances the concept of “diasporic SMOization” to explain organizational transformation during crises. Findings reveal that Ukrainian associatio…
Political science (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (8 obras) · Turkey's Politics and Society (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Turkish (6 obras) · Development economics (5 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Refugee (5 obras)