Anthropological Perspectives on Transnational Encounters in Turkey: War, Migration and Experiences of Coexistence
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This book is composed of eleven chapters. The majority of the studies were conducted with the participation of Syrian immigrants. The wave of compulsory emigration from Syria due to the continuing conflict in the country has affected Turkey deeply. Syrians under temporary protection have been living in almost every Turkish city since the early years of the war. The book also includes papers on groups who have come from Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia to Turkey, settling in various places in the country, in addition to Syrian immigrants.
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PREFACE
Meryem Bulut and Kadriye Şahin
CHAPTER 1 – RETHINKING MIGRATION WITHIN AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
Ceren Aksoy Sugiyama and Seher Çataloğlu
CHAPTER 2 – ARTIFICIAL BORDERS AND NATIONALISM: TURKMEN MIGRATION FROM IRAQ TO ISTANBUL
Seher Çataloğlu and Meryem Bulut
CHAPTER 3 – GENDER PERCEPTIONS OF SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS RESIDING IN SİVAS PROVINCE CENTRE AND PATRIARCHAL NEGOTIATIONS
Çağdaş Demren and Ünsal Karbuz
CHAPTER 4 – “THE GUEST DOESN’T LIKE ANOTHER GUEST, AND THE HOST LIKES NEITHER” : SOMALI REFUGEES FORGOTTEN IN A SATELLITE TOWN
Ayşe Yıldırım
CHAPTER 5 – CONTRIBUTION OF NGOs TO THE INTEGRATION OF SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS IN MARDİN
Süleyman Şanlı
CHAPTER 6 – RECONSTRUCTION OF DAILY LIFE BETWEEN TWO CULTURES: SYRIAN WOMEN LIVING IN ANTAKYA
Aylin Eraslan
CHAPTER 7 – AFGHANISTANI IMMIGRANTS SEEKING PEACE IN VAN
Fuat Leventoğlu
CHAPTER 8 – “TURKISH-GERMAN” FAMILIES: AN INSIDER VIEWPOINT ABOUT WAR, MIGRATION AND THE TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY BUILDING EXPERIENCE
Oya Topdemir Koçyiğit
CHAPTER 9 – PERCEPTIONS ABOUT ‘WAR MIGRANTS’ FROM SYRIA IN ANTAKYA: ANXIETY, FEAR, EMPATHY
Mustafa Çapar
CHAPTER 10 – MIGRANT WOMEN IN VAN: HOME AND DAILY LIFE AS A REFLECTION OF BELONGING
Berivan Vargün
CHAPTER 11 – THE CUISINE OF UZBEKS WHO EMIGRATED FROM AFGHANISTAN TO OVAKENT (HATAY): PRESERVED, CHANGED AND REMEMBERED
Kadriye Şahin
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About the author
Dr Meryem Bulut, the editor of this volume, is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Faculty of Language, History and Geography in Ankara University. She received her degree from the Social Work and Social Services Department of Hacettepe University and her MA and PhD degrees from the Department of Social Anthropology at Ankara University. Her research focuses on gender, Criminal Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, ethnicity, identity, changes/transformations in the rite of passage, and international migration. She has published widely on these topics in various journals. She has participated in national and international research projects on immigrants in Turkey fleeing conflicts elsewhere. She has published three books on domestic violence against children, biography, and identity and rituals. Her research has mainly been based on qualitative fieldwork while she has also used oral history as a method. She has edited several books Social Sciences while also being the editor of various journals in the fields of Folklore/Literature, Anthropology and Humanities.
Dr Kadriye Şahin, the editor of this volume, is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology of the Faculty of Letters at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University. Dr Kadriye Şahin received her degree from Archaeology and Art History Department of Faculty of Science and Letters at Trakya University. She obtained her MA degree from the Department of Anthropology at the Social Sciences Institute of Mustafa Kemal University and her PhD degree from the Department of Anthropology at the Social Sciences Institute of Hacettepe University. Şahin, who started her academic career as a research assistant in the Department of Anthropology of the Faculty of Science and Letters at Mustafa Kemal University in 2001, was appointed as Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology Section of the Department of Anthropology at the same university in 2012. Her areas of research are Social Anthropology, Food Anthropology, migration, gastronomy and geographical signs. She currently conducts qualitative research in various topics, including the culture of the city of Hatay.
