Fighting racism in Turkey

Kurdish homeownership as an anti-racist practice

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ID2148221
AutoresGullistan Yarkin (Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, USA), Güllistan Yarkın (Binghamton University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume43
Fascículo15
Páginas2705-2723
Data de publicação2020-12-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2019.1685116
OpenAlexW2988707916
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas13

This article focuses on the housing experiences of Kurdish migrants/working classes in a Turkish-dominated working-class district of Zeytinburnu in Istanbul since the 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the article argues that Kurds experienced housing discrimination predominantly in the forms of refusal of tenancy and the threat of removal from their homes by their Turkish neighbours and landlords. To struggle against this form of racism, they developed homeownership as a form of everyday anti-racist practice. For them, owned home rather than rented home emerged as a space of resistance where they can restore their dignity and integrity in a place polluted by racialized power relations with a long colonial history. The article also argues that the reproduction of the space in the form of apartmentalization since the 1980s and the crisis of the housing industry in the 2000s played important roles in Kurds' development of homeownership as an anti-racist practice

Business · Criminology · Dignity · Ethnography · Housing estate · Leasehold estate · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Racism · Resistance (ecology · Securitization · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Turkish · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society