Ş Can
Biographic Data
| ID | 28924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ş Can |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ş |
| FAMILY NAME | Can |
| SIGNATURE | CAN Ş |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adana Science and Technology University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2475-1269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Refugees as ‘Projects’
The Turkish city of Adana is renowned for its cosmopolitan landscape and relative success in hosting, and governing, large numbers of Syrian refugees since 2011. This article offers a comparative analysis of Northern influence in the humanitarian approach that works with refugees as ‘projects’, as opposed to local intimate encounters that seek to embody non-transient and local social and solidary forms of relatedness with and between refugees, pa…
Living heritage as shared knowledge
This paper investigates living heritage as a crucial entry point for community-led post-disaster reconstruction, drawing on the work of Architecture Sans Frontières UK (ASF-UK) in post-earthquake Antakya, Turkey. As state-led reconstruction often disrupts local ways of life and overlooks residents’ needs, living heritage is proposed as a framework to broaden the range of perspectives included beyond technical expertise, providing a platform for c…
Best Practice Democratic Policing in Papua
The implementation of Democratic Policing across various parts of the world demonstrates the interconnectedness of changes in approaches to addressing security issues. This transformation is a result of a systemic shift from operational and managerial police systems. This research seeks to affirm this argument in the policing practices in Mimika, Papua, highlighting changes in the level of community participation in maintaining public safety and …
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands
The displacement of Syrians into Turkey is approaching its twelfth year, but the conditions of Syrian presence in the country are still fraught with ambivalence. The dramatic changes in migration and border dynamics and the instrumentalization of Syrian migrants in Turkish politics have intensified racially motivated animosity. Yet in border provinces where Syrians are densely concentrated, popular attitudes toward them operate on other axes, whi…
Distant Toleration”
This article examines the politics of solidarity with and among refugee women in Turkey’s southern borderlands. Drawing on ethnographic research in Hatay, we focus on Syrian- and Turkish-led women’s organizations, whose solidarity work contextually entangles organized acts of care and support with social hierarchies, tensions, and mutual distance. These gendered social spaces complicate the scholarly critiques of depoliticization in refugee assis…
Syrian Displacement, Gender and Boundary-Making in the Turkish Borderlands
This article presents a reflexive ethnographic analysis of ‘refugee lives’ and borders and boundary-making in the Turkish borderlands. Since 2011, the humanitarian crisis as a result of the Syrian civil war, and the arrival at the European border zones of refugees crossing the Mediterranean, have occupied the news outlets of the world. Today the European Union and Turkey look for permanent ‘solutions’ and emphasize ‘integration’ as a durable resp…
Do border walls work
Border walls are often seen as preferable options to improve security by providing strong barriers against the movement of people. Although these barriers are never absolute and remain porous, they are still appealing, which raises the question about who benefits when border walls are introduced. This article questions whether and for whom border walls work by focusing on the new Turkish-Syrian border wall in Hatay. Through an ethnographic invest…
Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border
The Turkish-Syrian borderlands host almost half of the Syrian refugees, with an estimated 1.5 million people arriving in the area following the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. This book investigates the ongoing negotiations of ethnicity, religion and state at the border, as refugees struggle to settle and to navigate their encounters with the Turkish state and with different sectarian groups. In particular, the book explores the situation in An…
The Syrian Civil War, sectarianism and political change at the Turkish-Syrian border
The Syrian Civil War has displaced millions of Syrian citizens since March 2011 and has drastically changed the lives of those in the Turkish–Syrian borderlands. Antakya (Hatay), which was annexed by the Republic of Turkey from Syria under the French Mandate in 1939, is a border province that hosts tens of thousands of Syrian refugees today. Although the province has long been renowned for its ethnic and religious diversity, the influx of Syrian …
Do border walls work
Border walls are often seen as preferable options to improve security by providing strong barriers against the movement of people. Although these barriers are never absolute and remain porous, they are still appealing, which raises the question about who benefits when border walls are introduced. This article questions whether and for whom border walls work by focusing on the new Turkish-Syrian border wall in Hatay. Through an ethnographic invest…
Distant Toleration”
This article examines the politics of solidarity with and among refugee women in Turkey’s southern borderlands. Drawing on ethnographic research in Hatay, we focus on Syrian- and Turkish-led women’s organizations, whose solidarity work contextually entangles organized acts of care and support with social hierarchies, tensions, and mutual distance. These gendered social spaces complicate the scholarly critiques of depoliticization in refugee assis…
The Syrian Civil War, sectarianism and political change at the Turkish-Syrian border
The Syrian Civil War has displaced millions of Syrian citizens since March 2011 and has drastically changed the lives of those in the Turkish–Syrian borderlands. Antakya (Hatay), which was annexed by the Republic of Turkey from Syria under the French Mandate in 1939, is a border province that hosts tens of thousands of Syrian refugees today. Although the province has long been renowned for its ethnic and religious diversity, the influx of Syrian …
Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border
The Turkish-Syrian borderlands host almost half of the Syrian refugees, with an estimated 1.5 million people arriving in the area following the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. This book investigates the ongoing negotiations of ethnicity, religion and state at the border, as refugees struggle to settle and to navigate their encounters with the Turkish state and with different sectarian groups. In particular, the book explores the situation in An…
Do border walls work
Border walls are often seen as preferable options to improve security by providing strong barriers against the movement of people. Although these barriers are never absolute and remain porous, they are still appealing, which raises the question about who benefits when border walls are introduced. This article questions whether and for whom border walls work by focusing on the new Turkish-Syrian border wall in Hatay. Through an ethnographic invest…
Distant Toleration”
This article examines the politics of solidarity with and among refugee women in Turkey’s southern borderlands. Drawing on ethnographic research in Hatay, we focus on Syrian- and Turkish-led women’s organizations, whose solidarity work contextually entangles organized acts of care and support with social hierarchies, tensions, and mutual distance. These gendered social spaces complicate the scholarly critiques of depoliticization in refugee assis…
Syrian Displacement, Gender and Boundary-Making in the Turkish Borderlands
This article presents a reflexive ethnographic analysis of ‘refugee lives’ and borders and boundary-making in the Turkish borderlands. Since 2011, the humanitarian crisis as a result of the Syrian civil war, and the arrival at the European border zones of refugees crossing the Mediterranean, have occupied the news outlets of the world. Today the European Union and Turkey look for permanent ‘solutions’ and emphasize ‘integration’ as a durable resp…
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands
The displacement of Syrians into Turkey is approaching its twelfth year, but the conditions of Syrian presence in the country are still fraught with ambivalence. The dramatic changes in migration and border dynamics and the instrumentalization of Syrian migrants in Turkish politics have intensified racially motivated animosity. Yet in border provinces where Syrians are densely concentrated, popular attitudes toward them operate on other axes, whi…
Best Practice Democratic Policing in Papua
The implementation of Democratic Policing across various parts of the world demonstrates the interconnectedness of changes in approaches to addressing security issues. This transformation is a result of a systemic shift from operational and managerial police systems. This research seeks to affirm this argument in the policing practices in Mimika, Papua, highlighting changes in the level of community participation in maintaining public safety and …
Refugees as ‘Projects’
The Turkish city of Adana is renowned for its cosmopolitan landscape and relative success in hosting, and governing, large numbers of Syrian refugees since 2011. This article offers a comparative analysis of Northern influence in the humanitarian approach that works with refugees as ‘projects’, as opposed to local intimate encounters that seek to embody non-transient and local social and solidary forms of relatedness with and between refugees, pa…
Living heritage as shared knowledge
This paper investigates living heritage as a crucial entry point for community-led post-disaster reconstruction, drawing on the work of Architecture Sans Frontières UK (ASF-UK) in post-earthquake Antakya, Turkey. As state-led reconstruction often disrupts local ways of life and overlooks residents’ needs, living heritage is proposed as a framework to broaden the range of perspectives included beyond technical expertise, providing a platform for c…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Refugee (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Turkish (6 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (4 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (4 works)