Ayse Parla
Biographic Data
| ID | 113201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayse Parla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayse |
| FAMILY NAME | Parla |
| SIGNATURE | PARLA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sabancı Üniversitesi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation
Soghomon Tehlirian was acquitted in Berlin in 1921 for the killing of Talat Paşa, Ottoman minister and architect of the Armenian Genocide. Complicating clear-cut distinctions between truth and fabulation, and personal revenge and legal justice, this paper examines the 1921 trial in light of Tehlirian's 1953 memoir, to show the legal, moral, and epistemological work done by the ghost of Tehlirian's mother. I move beyond the usual designations of T…
Revisiting 'honor' through migrant vulnerabilities in Turkey
This essay revisits the trope of honour and takes stock of its critiques by foregrounding the elusive bodies of undocumented migrant women in Turkey. Specifically, I engage with the extent to which the legal normalization of the culture of honour results in routinized sexual violence against undocumented migrant women and in impunity for the perpetrators. On the one hand, I pursue the critique of honour as an essentalized, generalized and timeles…
Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey
Property, Dispossession, and Citizenship in Turkey; Or, the History of the Gezi Uprising Starts in the Surp Hagop Armenian Cemetery
This article focuses on the state confiscation of the Surp Hagop Armenian cemetery as more than just another fact about the famous 2013 protests in Gezi Park in Istanbul. In addition to coming to terms with the limits of the Gezi uprising in relation to its claims of inclusiveness, such a focus unravels the key tension between, on the one hand, progressive and left-wing calls to promote the allegedly equal, universal citizen in Turkey through pro…
Labor migration, ethnic kinship, and the conundrum of citizenship in Turkey
This paper explores the ambiguous purchase that claiming Turkish ethnicity has in Bulgarian Turkish migrants' attempts to access formal and social citizenship. I suggest that despite the new Citizenship Law, which appears to eliminate ethnic privilege, the emphasis on Turkish ethnicity continues to play a significant role in the migrants' attempts at inclusion. I seek to resolve this seeming tension between, on the one hand, the continuing signif…
Undocumented Migrants and the Double Binds of Rights Claims
This article explores the potentials for and pitfalls of the virtually nonexistent terrain of rights for undocumented migrants in Turkey to engage the broader question of whether the language of rights can serve emancipatory ends for subordinated groups. As in other capitalist regimes, the question of the rights of undocumented migrants in Turkey presents a major paradox. On the one hand, the undocumented migrants' lack of right to residence, wor…
Broken Lines of Il/Legality and the Reproduction of State Sovereignty: The Impact of Visa Policies on Immigrants to Turkey from Bulgaria
After the granting of citizenship to 300,000 immigrants from Bulgaria in 1989, Turkey has enacted visa regime changes concerning more recent migrants from Bulgaria, who, according to the most recent modification, are only allowed to stay for 90 days within any six-month period. In this article, the authors demonstrate that the broken lines of legality/illegality produced by these changing policies further entrench the sovereignty of the state thr…
Remembering across the border: Postsocialist nostalgia among Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria
Postsocialist nostalgia" among Turkish immigrant women from Bulgaria is not just strategic performance to negotiate the challenges that face working women in Turkey but is also cross-cultural analysis based on the migrants' experiences of distinct gender regimes on the two sides of the border. I explore why the competition between established residents and newcomers over scarce resources becomes, in this instance, the ground for negotiation over …
Irregular Workers or Ethnic Kin? Post‐1990s Labour Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey
This paper addresses the invisibility of the post‐1990s irregular migration flows from Bulgaria to Turkey in the literature despite the increasingly significant number of such migrants. I suggest that this invisibility stems partially from a problem of classification that has to do with implicit suppositions about ethnicity and migration. The post‐1990s Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria are not specified in accounts of irregular migrant flows dire…
Longing, Belonging and Locations of Homeland among Turkish Immigrants from Bulgaria
The framework of transnationalism has offered a sustained critique of dichotomous understandings of home and host country. Nevertheless, the recognition of immigrants’ embeddedness in more than one nation‐state should not come at the expense of investigating the abiding grip that nation‐states exert on the dislocation experience. Through an analysis of Bulgarian‐Turkish return migration, it is argued in this paper that the framework of transnatio…
Marking Time Along the Bulgarian-Turkish Border
As a minority group, the Turks of Bulgaria faced a cruel paradox: in Bulgaria during 1984-1989, they were persecuted by the government because they were 'Turkish'; in Turkey, the symbolic homeland to which they migrated en masse in 1989, they were marginalized by the local population on account of being 'Bulgarian'. More than 300,000 Turks fled Bulgaria in 1989, and, although more than half of those immigrants have returned back to Bulgaria after…
The "Honor" of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey
In 1992, the tragedy of the fifteen-year-old G. made headlines in the Turkish press, in a typically stylized, melodramatic narrative. The principal of the high school G. attended called her father for a private meeting. When her father arrived, she was asked to leave the office. She remained behind the closed door, however, and overheard the principal notify her father, Your daughter has a very low attendance record for the past term. I have been…
The 'Honor' of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey
The "Honor" of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey
In 1992, the tragedy of the fifteen-year-old G. made headlines in the Turkish press, in a typically stylized, melodramatic narrative. The principal of the high school G. attended called her father for a private meeting. When her father arrived, she was asked to leave the office. She remained behind the closed door, however, and overheard the principal notify her father, Your daughter has a very low attendance record for the past term. I have been…
Remembering across the border: Postsocialist nostalgia among Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria
Postsocialist nostalgia" among Turkish immigrant women from Bulgaria is not just strategic performance to negotiate the challenges that face working women in Turkey but is also cross-cultural analysis based on the migrants' experiences of distinct gender regimes on the two sides of the border. I explore why the competition between established residents and newcomers over scarce resources becomes, in this instance, the ground for negotiation over …
Property, Dispossession, and Citizenship in Turkey; Or, the History of the Gezi Uprising Starts in the Surp Hagop Armenian Cemetery
This article focuses on the state confiscation of the Surp Hagop Armenian cemetery as more than just another fact about the famous 2013 protests in Gezi Park in Istanbul. In addition to coming to terms with the limits of the Gezi uprising in relation to its claims of inclusiveness, such a focus unravels the key tension between, on the one hand, progressive and left-wing calls to promote the allegedly equal, universal citizen in Turkey through pro…
Broken Lines of Il/Legality and the Reproduction of State Sovereignty: The Impact of Visa Policies on Immigrants to Turkey from Bulgaria
After the granting of citizenship to 300,000 immigrants from Bulgaria in 1989, Turkey has enacted visa regime changes concerning more recent migrants from Bulgaria, who, according to the most recent modification, are only allowed to stay for 90 days within any six-month period. In this article, the authors demonstrate that the broken lines of legality/illegality produced by these changing policies further entrench the sovereignty of the state thr…
Irregular Workers or Ethnic Kin? Post‐1990s Labour Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey
This paper addresses the invisibility of the post‐1990s irregular migration flows from Bulgaria to Turkey in the literature despite the increasingly significant number of such migrants. I suggest that this invisibility stems partially from a problem of classification that has to do with implicit suppositions about ethnicity and migration. The post‐1990s Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria are not specified in accounts of irregular migrant flows dire…
Labor migration, ethnic kinship, and the conundrum of citizenship in Turkey
This paper explores the ambiguous purchase that claiming Turkish ethnicity has in Bulgarian Turkish migrants' attempts to access formal and social citizenship. I suggest that despite the new Citizenship Law, which appears to eliminate ethnic privilege, the emphasis on Turkish ethnicity continues to play a significant role in the migrants' attempts at inclusion. I seek to resolve this seeming tension between, on the one hand, the continuing signif…
Undocumented Migrants and the Double Binds of Rights Claims
This article explores the potentials for and pitfalls of the virtually nonexistent terrain of rights for undocumented migrants in Turkey to engage the broader question of whether the language of rights can serve emancipatory ends for subordinated groups. As in other capitalist regimes, the question of the rights of undocumented migrants in Turkey presents a major paradox. On the one hand, the undocumented migrants' lack of right to residence, wor…
Marking Time Along the Bulgarian-Turkish Border
As a minority group, the Turks of Bulgaria faced a cruel paradox: in Bulgaria during 1984-1989, they were persecuted by the government because they were 'Turkish'; in Turkey, the symbolic homeland to which they migrated en masse in 1989, they were marginalized by the local population on account of being 'Bulgarian'. More than 300,000 Turks fled Bulgaria in 1989, and, although more than half of those immigrants have returned back to Bulgaria after…
Revisiting 'honor' through migrant vulnerabilities in Turkey
This essay revisits the trope of honour and takes stock of its critiques by foregrounding the elusive bodies of undocumented migrant women in Turkey. Specifically, I engage with the extent to which the legal normalization of the culture of honour results in routinized sexual violence against undocumented migrant women and in impunity for the perpetrators. On the one hand, I pursue the critique of honour as an essentalized, generalized and timeles…
The 'Honor' of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey
The 'Honor' of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey
The "Honor" of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey
In 1992, the tragedy of the fifteen-year-old G. made headlines in the Turkish press, in a typically stylized, melodramatic narrative. The principal of the high school G. attended called her father for a private meeting. When her father arrived, she was asked to leave the office. She remained behind the closed door, however, and overheard the principal notify her father, Your daughter has a very low attendance record for the past term. I have been…
Marking Time Along the Bulgarian-Turkish Border
As a minority group, the Turks of Bulgaria faced a cruel paradox: in Bulgaria during 1984-1989, they were persecuted by the government because they were 'Turkish'; in Turkey, the symbolic homeland to which they migrated en masse in 1989, they were marginalized by the local population on account of being 'Bulgarian'. More than 300,000 Turks fled Bulgaria in 1989, and, although more than half of those immigrants have returned back to Bulgaria after…
Longing, Belonging and Locations of Homeland among Turkish Immigrants from Bulgaria
The framework of transnationalism has offered a sustained critique of dichotomous understandings of home and host country. Nevertheless, the recognition of immigrants’ embeddedness in more than one nation‐state should not come at the expense of investigating the abiding grip that nation‐states exert on the dislocation experience. Through an analysis of Bulgarian‐Turkish return migration, it is argued in this paper that the framework of transnatio…
Irregular Workers or Ethnic Kin? Post‐1990s Labour Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey
This paper addresses the invisibility of the post‐1990s irregular migration flows from Bulgaria to Turkey in the literature despite the increasingly significant number of such migrants. I suggest that this invisibility stems partially from a problem of classification that has to do with implicit suppositions about ethnicity and migration. The post‐1990s Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria are not specified in accounts of irregular migrant flows dire…
Broken Lines of Il/Legality and the Reproduction of State Sovereignty: The Impact of Visa Policies on Immigrants to Turkey from Bulgaria
After the granting of citizenship to 300,000 immigrants from Bulgaria in 1989, Turkey has enacted visa regime changes concerning more recent migrants from Bulgaria, who, according to the most recent modification, are only allowed to stay for 90 days within any six-month period. In this article, the authors demonstrate that the broken lines of legality/illegality produced by these changing policies further entrench the sovereignty of the state thr…
Remembering across the border: Postsocialist nostalgia among Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria
Postsocialist nostalgia" among Turkish immigrant women from Bulgaria is not just strategic performance to negotiate the challenges that face working women in Turkey but is also cross-cultural analysis based on the migrants' experiences of distinct gender regimes on the two sides of the border. I explore why the competition between established residents and newcomers over scarce resources becomes, in this instance, the ground for negotiation over …
Labor migration, ethnic kinship, and the conundrum of citizenship in Turkey
This paper explores the ambiguous purchase that claiming Turkish ethnicity has in Bulgarian Turkish migrants' attempts to access formal and social citizenship. I suggest that despite the new Citizenship Law, which appears to eliminate ethnic privilege, the emphasis on Turkish ethnicity continues to play a significant role in the migrants' attempts at inclusion. I seek to resolve this seeming tension between, on the one hand, the continuing signif…
Undocumented Migrants and the Double Binds of Rights Claims
This article explores the potentials for and pitfalls of the virtually nonexistent terrain of rights for undocumented migrants in Turkey to engage the broader question of whether the language of rights can serve emancipatory ends for subordinated groups. As in other capitalist regimes, the question of the rights of undocumented migrants in Turkey presents a major paradox. On the one hand, the undocumented migrants' lack of right to residence, wor…
Property, Dispossession, and Citizenship in Turkey; Or, the History of the Gezi Uprising Starts in the Surp Hagop Armenian Cemetery
This article focuses on the state confiscation of the Surp Hagop Armenian cemetery as more than just another fact about the famous 2013 protests in Gezi Park in Istanbul. In addition to coming to terms with the limits of the Gezi uprising in relation to its claims of inclusiveness, such a focus unravels the key tension between, on the one hand, progressive and left-wing calls to promote the allegedly equal, universal citizen in Turkey through pro…
Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey
Revisiting 'honor' through migrant vulnerabilities in Turkey
This essay revisits the trope of honour and takes stock of its critiques by foregrounding the elusive bodies of undocumented migrant women in Turkey. Specifically, I engage with the extent to which the legal normalization of the culture of honour results in routinized sexual violence against undocumented migrant women and in impunity for the perpetrators. On the one hand, I pursue the critique of honour as an essentalized, generalized and timeles…
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation
Soghomon Tehlirian was acquitted in Berlin in 1921 for the killing of Talat Paşa, Ottoman minister and architect of the Armenian Genocide. Complicating clear-cut distinctions between truth and fabulation, and personal revenge and legal justice, this paper examines the 1921 trial in light of Tehlirian's 1953 memoir, to show the legal, moral, and epistemological work done by the ghost of Tehlirian's mother. I move beyond the usual designations of T…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (8 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Turkish (7 works) · Bulgarian (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works)