Syrian Displacement, Gender and Boundary-Making in the Turkish Borderlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6136191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ş Can (0000-0002-2475-1269, Adana Science and Technology University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Anthropology of East Europe Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-4720 • E-ISSN: 2153-2931 |
| Publisher | IUScholarWorks (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14434/aeer.v37i1.33502 |
| OpenAlex | W3212293366 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
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 response to forced migration. This essay explores reflexive dimensions of long-term-fieldwork with Syrian refugees at the Turkey-Syria border through an analysis of ethnographic encounters and the politics of belonging and place-making. Borders are often contested spaces that complicate the researcher’s positionality, which oscillates between a politically engaged subject position and the ‘stranger’ who encounters the ‘other’ and must negotiate her space. By examining the Turkish-Syrian border and Syrian refugees’ experiences in the border city of Antakya, this article offers a critical lens to view the identity and politics of the researcher and embodied geopolitics
Ethnography · European union · Geopolitics · Mobilities · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Refugee · Sociology · Syrian refugees · Turkish · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security
The Ethnographic Self
The Vulnerable Observer
Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border
The Syrian Civil War, sectarianism and political change at the Turkish-Syrian border
GPC Ten Years On
Insider or outsider, both or neither
Navigating the ‘field
The Border Harms of Human Displacement
Refugee Hospitality in Lebanon and Turkey. On Making 'The Other
Inhabiting Difference across Religion and Gender
The Syrian refugee challenge and Turkey's quest for normative power in the Middle East
Situated Knowledges
The qualitative researcher
Now I see it, now I don't
Contagious' solidarity
| Highly cited | No |
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