Kurdish cross-border trade between Syria and Turkey
The socio-political trajectories of Syrian Kurds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10279998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cemal Ozkahraman (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 567-580 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-3206 • E-ISSN: 1743-7881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00263206.2021.1874365 |
| OpenAlex | W3128460553 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
From Syria's independence to the eve of the civil war in 2011, Kurds in Syria were subjected to state ethno-exclusion, economic and socio-political marginalization, impacting on their freedom and profoundly altering the demography of their region. The majority became stateless and sank into severe poverty, having to work illegally on their own land and participate in informal cross-border trade for their basic needs. This article examines this cross-border trade and its impact on interaction between Kurds in Syria and those in Turkey, arguing that it has not only been a socio-economic resource for marginalized Syrian Kurds but that these interactions have contributed to a broader social process of Kurdish political mobilization, which resulted in socio-political trajectories that became evident just before Syria's civil war
Development economics · Economics · Independence (probability theory · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · Stateless protocol · Belt and Road Initiative · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |