(Non-state) actors in internal bordering and differential inclusion

Syrian refugees' housing experience in Turkey

Bibliographic Data

ID2149553
AuthorsUlaş Sunata (0000-0002-3609-3953, Department of Sociology & Center of Migration and Urban Studies (BAUMUS), Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, corresponding author), Feriha Nazda Güngördü (0000-0003-2212-308X, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany)
Year2024
Volume47
Issue12
Pages2587-2608
Publication date2024-09-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2024.2344684
OpenAlexW4396545983
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited42

Turkey, as the largest refugee-hosting country, provides insights into the externalization of European borders and the internalization of its own borders. Oscillating between open-door and strict-border policies, alongside the political inactiveness of public authorities and CSOs governing Syrian mobility, Turkey reveals crucial dynamics. Focusing on Syrian refugees' housing in a refugee hub of Izmir, this study unravels internal bordering and explores its rationales and the involvement of non-state actors. Syrian refugees encounter three internal bordering mechanisms affecting their housing inclusion: selective overpricing, ethnic filtering and arbitrary interrogations. These differential inclusion practices, led by market actors (landlords and realtors), ethnic networks, and street-level bureaucrats (mukhtars and municipal officers), are driven by the prevalence of anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey, where Syrians are perceived as unwanted or undeserving. The internal bordering mechanisms are rooted in ethnic, economic, cultural, and security-based rationales, influenced by the personal interests and socio-economic backgrounds of the involved actors

Differential (mechanical device · Differential inclusion · Inclusion (mineral · Internal migration · Political science · Population · Refugee · Sociology · State (computer science · Syrian refugees · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Turkey's Politics and Society

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