GENDER PERCEPTIONS OF SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS RESIDING IN SIVAS PROVINCE CENTRE AND PATRIARCHAL NEGOTIATIONS
GENDER PERCEPTIONS OF SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS RESIDING IN SIVAS PROVINCE CENTRE AND PATRIARCHAL NEGOTIATIONS

Author(s): Çağdaş Demren, Ünsal Karbuz
Subject(s): Anthropology, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkey; migration; Syrian immigrants; Sivas province; gender; patriarchal negotiations;
Summary/Abstract: War, as a devastating reality of humanity, brings the life of many to a certain, determinant point of no return through destructive impacts. The most significant of these points is death. The survivors, on the other hand, face displacement, are obliged to follow new routes, while trying to start new lives. The boundaries of their previous lives shatter; places once called ‘home’ lose their meaning. Social and cultural bonds that tie them to those places are shattered, gone. They feel obliged to migrate, to search for new hopes. The increasingly ongoing Civil War in Syria since ongoing 2011 has caused millions of people go through such traumatic processes changing the boundaries and places of these persons.

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