Experiences Of Refugeehood And Political Subjectivity: The Case Of Kurdish And Left-Wing Political Refugees From Turkey In Greece
Experiences Of Refugeehood And Political Subjectivity: The Case Of Kurdish And Left-Wing Political Refugees From Turkey In Greece

Author(s): Beja Protner
Subject(s): Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Experiences Of Refugeehood And Political Subjectivity; The Case Of Kurdish And Left-Wing; Political Refugees; Turkey; Greece;
Summary/Abstract: Widespread public and academic discourses have recently framed forced migration in Europe in terms of crisis. The notion of “crisis” assumes novelty, exceptionality, and urgency, and thus replaces in-depth, contextualized analysis with rapid responses. This paper acknowledges the pitfalls of crisis-driven migration research. Based on an ethnographic research with Kurdish and left-wing political exiles from Turkey in Greece, it shows that specific historical context and people’s political subjectivities crucially shape experiences of refugeehood under the general conditions of the European migration regime. This way, the paper challenges the stereotypical imagination of “refugee experience” as universal and exceptional.

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