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Power and politics in migration narrative methodology: research with young Congolese migrants in Uganda

Author(s): Christina Clark-Kazak / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper explores the power dynamics inherent in qualitative research involving migration narratives. Drawing on the author’s experiences collecting life histories and constructing narratives of Congolese young people in Uganda, this article addresses the ethical and methodological issues of representivity, ownership, anonymity and confidentiality. It also explores the importance of investment in relationships in migration narrative research, but also the difficulties that arise when professional and personal boundaries become blurred.

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EXPLORING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE AIMS AND THE CONTEXT OF LGBTI+ ORGANISING: THE CASE OF LGBTI+ ORGANISATIONS IN TURKEY AND THE UK

Author(s): Erhan Aydin,Mustafa F. Özbilgin / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Studies on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and other sexuality (LGBTI+) issues mostly adopt an individual level of analysis that covers discrimination, violence, voice and visibility (Rumens, 2016; McPhail et al., 2016; Yılmaz and Gocmen, 2016; Wright, 2015; Ozturk, 2011; Colgan et al., 2007). For this reason, mainstream research focuses on reporting individual experiences, through a critical and emancipatory paradigm. Yet the mainstream research surprisingly neglects the role of LGBTI+ organisations in protecting and fighting against the individual challenges that LGBTI+ individuals face in both organisations and society. In this chapter, we fill this void by exploring the often underplayed meso level of LGBTI+ issues, i.e. LGBTI+ organisations in their international, national and institutional settings. In particular, we examine the aims of the LGBTI+ organisations, in their particular context.

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TRANS WOMEN PRISONERS IN TURKEY

Author(s): Selin Berghan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Studies on trans prisoners are quite rare in spite of the steady increase in the number of studies and researches on LGBTI in recent years. Though there is some increase in the number of studies on LGBTI in general and trans prisoners in particular, these studies still remain quite limited both internationally and in Turkey. LGBTI individuals are often unprotected in the judicial system from discrimination and violence on the basis of their sexual identity and orientation. While some trans women and gay prisoners can conceal their identity, “excessive” visibility of trans women increases the risk of maltreatment and violence (ACLU&NCLR 2014; UNODC 2009). Further, those who are perceived as gay though not being so, may also face the same forms of violence.

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KAOS GL MAGAZINE'S ROLE IN THE EMERGENCE OF THE LGBTI PUBLIC SPHERE IN TURKEY

Author(s): İdil Engindeniz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Jürgen Habermas’ work entitled “The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society” has brought the concept of “public sphere” to an important place in social science debates, since its publication in German in 1962, but especially in 1989 when it was translated into English. Since then Habermas has been criticized by feminist readings and counter-public sphere approaches, and Habermas himself has made several changes in his approach over time. In France in 2010, Professor on sciences of information and communication, Bernard Miège’s “L’espace public contemporain. Approche infocommunicationnelle” (Contemporary public sphere, informationalcommunicative approach) also introduced a new approach and proceeded through the concept of “societal public sphere”. The challenge is to show how the concept of public sphere, which is used in the field of political science, can also be useful in terms of communication sciences, as well as allowing us to evaluate different public spheres which can include not only rational discussion, but also personal narratives.

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Opportunities for Building Teacher Capacity in the MENA Region for Syrian Refugee Education

Author(s): Louisa Visconti,Diane Gal / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Crisis-driven demographic changes have presented new challenges to educate both refugees and nationals in the MENA region. In particular, Syria’s eight-year war has displaced or made refugees of almost half of its 22 million pre-war population. Approximately 5.65 million Syrians are now in neighbouring countries of Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt (3RP, 2017). Nearly two million are school-age children and youth. However, this does not include thousands of young Syrian adults through age 30 who may also need formal and/or TVET education (UNICEF, 2018).

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Coerced Migration, Migrating Rhetoric: The ‘Forked Tongue’ of Native American Removal Policy in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Author(s): Estella Ciobanu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

It cannot be overstated how condescending the I/father–you/my children dichotomy sounds. (Neither the ‘Friends & Brothers’ interpellation nor the spurious ‘your father and friend’ self-identification nor the euphemistic ‘advises’ can mitigate its hierarchical thrust.) Some modern readers may not find such paternalism offensive, thanks to their regular congress with the clergy, whose discursive subject position is traditionally that of a (spiritual) father – the self-styled vicar (vicarius, ‘substitute’) of God the Father. President Jackson assumes here a comparable lordly position, yet one endorsed, he claims, from heaven (the deity) to earth (white male ballot). Claims to the natives’ land had long been sounded as an authority-related argumentum by verecundiam in appeals by European settlers to the charts issued by their monarchs as enforcers of Christianity, hence allegedly of God’s will. Granted that the differential governmental traditions and the European ruse – we have a chart to support our claim to your land; can you produce yours? – must have taken the natives by surprise. But did the ruse appear to them as the Great Spirit’s hand? Decidedly not.

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Literary Representations of Progressive Era Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States and the Question of Genre: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906)

Author(s): Cansu Özge Özmen / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

On August 4, 1904, American journalist Ernest Poole published a short account in Independent called “From Lithuania to the Chicago Stockyards, An Autobiography: Antanas Kaztauskis”. He had visited Chicago as a press agent for the workers’ union and sought to investigate the labour movement among the meatpacking workers. He stayed in Chicago for six weeks and conducted extensive interviews with workers who lived in what is called the “Back of the Yards” neighbourhood in the west and south of Packingtown, a residential area predominantly populated by immigrants.

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

Author(s): Çağdaş Demren,Ünsal Karbuz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

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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Çağdaş Türk Resim Sanatında Göç Teması: Ramiz Aydın Örneği

Author(s): Ferhunde Küçükşen Öner / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Göç, farklı bileşenlerin bir araya gelmesiyle oluşan nedensellikler ve bu nedenselliklerin doğurduğu farklı sonuçlar üzerinden yaşanan sosyolojik bir olgudur. Bu bakımdan savaş, nüfus politikaları, daha iyi yaşam koşulları arayışı gibi bileşenler göç söz konusu olduğunda hem neden hem sonuç olabilir. Göç, tarih boyunca insanların 'arayış arzusunu' ve 'zorunluluklardaki edilgenliğini' bireysel ve toplumsal yönleri ile tecrübe etmesini sağladığı için pratiğe dönük olduğu kadar kavramsal boyutuyla da yaşar. Bu nedenle göç, sebep sonuçları tarihsel süreç içerisinde değişiklik arz etse de sürekli devam eder. 'Önce-şimdi-sonra döngüselliğini sürekli devam ettiren önemli bir eylemdir ve bireysel/toplumsal anlamda belleğin altını çizdiği kayıtların başında gelir.

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Göçmen Emeği ve Sermaye Birikimine Etkileri: Suriyeli Sığınmacıların İstihdamı, Şanlıurfa Örneği

Author(s): Ayşe Cebeci / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Türkiye’nin 2011 yılı Mart ayından sonra karşı karşıya kaldığı göç, daha önce bu topraklarda karşılaşılmadığı kadar kısa sürede ve yüksek sayıda insan hareketidir. Bu nedenle Suriye göçünün ortaya çıkarttığı etkiler daha görünür olmuştur. Oysa gerek Türkiye coğrafyasında gerekse gelişmiş ülkeler ve diğer coğrafyalarda göç insanlığın var olduğu dönemden beri vuku bulmaktadır. Aynı zamanda göç, toplumsal varoluşun her boyutunu etkileyen karmaşık bir süreçtir. Bu nedenle incelenmesi ve her boyutu ile analiz edilmesi de zordur. Dolayısıyla göç çalışmaları disiplinler arası olmalıdır ve hiçbir ilgili alan kendisinin tek başına göç olgusunu açıklayabileceğini iddia etmemelidir. Bu aşamada göç çalışmalarını özetlemek faydalı olacaktır.

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Göç Olgusunun Yarattığı Toplumsal Kriz Bağlamında “Keşanlı Ali Destanı” Oyunu

Author(s): Tamer Temel / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Toplumumuzda iç göçün tarihi, Osmanlı Dönemine kadar dayansa da, demokrasiye ve çok partili döneme geçişin başlangıcı olan 1950’li yıllardan bugüne dek sürekli yaşanmakta ve iç göçün en önemli sonucu olarak da gecekondu sorununu ortaya çıkmaktadır (Çakır, 2011, s. 209).

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Diasporadan Alevilerle İşçi Sınıfını “Musahip” Yapma Çabası: Kavga/Kervan Dergilerinde Alevilik

Author(s): Tuncay Bilecen / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Son yıllarda sosyal bilimler alanında Aleviliğe yönelik büyük bir ilgi var, bu konuyu çeşitli boyutlarıyla ele alan çalışmalarda adeta bir literatür patlaması yaşanıyor. Aleviliğe yönelik bu artan ilgiyi açıklamak için siyasal, konjonktürel ve uluslararası pek çok neden sıralamak mümkün. Nitekim Alevi hareketinin örgütlenmesinde hem ulusal hem de uluslararası etkiler mevcuttur.

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Implications of the European Union-Turkish Migration Agreement for the Slovak Domestic and Foreign Policy

Author(s): Barbora Olejárová / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Slovak Republic is not located on the main migratory routes of people from the third-countries on their way to Western Europe and the state itself has never become final destination for irregular migrants or asylum seekers. Despite this fact, the crisis of migrants coming from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa significantly influenced both Slovak domestic and foreign policy and created unprecedented dichotomies between Slovak internal and international stance towards the issue, generating impression that Slovakia is playing both ends. Main aim of the paper is to provide evidence of how intensively can migration waves affect even those countries that are neither source countries nor transit or final destination countries for the migrants. The paper presents position of the Slovak Republic on the ongoing migration crisis and the EU solutions including the deal with Turkey and explains the dichotomy among the opinion of the general public and political leaders on one hand and the official stance country presented as the presiding country of the Council of the EU on the other hand, providing evidence that the argumentation lines of both sites were not as diverse as presented and proved to be right from the long-term perspective.

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Legal and Circular Migration in the European Union Mobility Partnerships

Author(s): Katarzyna A. Morawska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In the light of current migration crisis, the biggest emphasis is presently put on the asylum policy. The hostile attitude or even reluctance of the European societies towards immigrants make the debate on immigration policy even more complex and though. In this context, it is not easy to convince the Europeans of the advantages coming from legal migration. Nevertheless, from over two decades the EU institutions, especially the European Commission, have been supporting the need for effective cooperation with third countries in the field of migration. That is why the concept of Mobility Partnerships has been introduced within the EU immigration policy. The aim of this article is to present and evaluate the impact of existing declarations signed between certain Member States and third countries on legal migration and analyse their influence on the inflow of foreigners to the EU.

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Some Results of Irregular Migration in Turkey

Author(s): Melek Zubaroğlu Yanardağ,Umut Yanardağ / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The issue of irregular migration in Turkey is gaining an increasingly important dimension. In the context of irregular migration, it is known that many foreigners use Turkey as a target or transit country for economic and political reasons. Only in 2016, 174,466 irregular migrants were apprehended in various regions of Turkey. This number has been increasing, especially in recent years. The current irregular migration movements in Turkey affect not only Turkey but also the European countries around it. In 2014, 280 thousand people illegally reached Europe by sea and land. In 2015, this number increased to 1,046,600. It is known that irregular migration concentrates on the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Marmara coasts. According to the Turkish Coast Guard Command, a total of 490 irregular migrants lost their lives while illegally trying to cross into European countries in 2015, 2016, and the first months of 2017. This picture makes it necessary to address the human dimension of irregular migration from a broader perspective. While coping with irregular migration, policies should be developed by keeping the human dimension of the subject in mind through investigating the causes that drive migrants to irregular migration. In parallel with this, fighting against human smugglers is indispensable. At this point, social work profession, which has to take an active role in the field of migration, must be maintained by improving its practices on the basis of human rights. While working with irregular migrants, social workers must stay away from stigmatizing and judicial attitudes and advocate for the protection of the human rights of these migrants.

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The Role of Loneliness in the Process of Addiction Development among FSU Immigrant Drug Users in Israel

Author(s): Liat Yakhnich / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This paper aims to illustrate the trajectories of development of drug addiction among FSU immigrants, and to stress immigrant users' sense of loneliness as the core issue that characterizes these trajectories. The paper is based on a qualitative phenomenological study that explored the characteristics of drug abuse among FSU immigrant drug addicts in Israel. The information was gathered by interviewing 19 Russian-speaking recovering addict counselors employed in Israeli addiction treatment centers. The interview analysis yielded two main trajectories of addiction development among FSU immigrants. The most common one is characteristic of older users who immigrate with already-existing drug problems which almost always become aggravated after immigration. The second trajectory is typical of younger users who immigrate in late childhood and early adolescence, and start using drugs after immigration (and usually in proximity to it). The core issue that characterizes both trajectories is the immigrant users' sense of loneliness. Implications for prevention and treatment based on the interviewees’ reflections, as well as on extant literature, are discussed.

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The Alevi Youth in the German Diaspora

Author(s): Deniz Coşan Eke / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The migrant’s identity construction is a salient theme in the public and political integration debate in Germany as well as in other European countries. The Alevi community faces a variety of specific challenges in transnational space, such as the protection of its identity and the recognition of its cultural and religious differences. For Alevis, the prospect of being recognized both as a religious and cultural group and an immigrant group in Germany has created a growing social and political movement and a diaspora to Germany. Consequently, after more than 50 years, the children of Alevi migrants to Germany, especially of third generation, are starting to grow up in a transnational context within a diasporic consciousness.

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Language and Identity Problems

Author(s): Neriman Hocaoğlu Bahadır / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Migration, language and identity are three interrelated concepts. These concepts have important effects on the lives of moving families, as their lives are social realities. In this research, it is aimed to focus on the 1989 migration from Bulgaria to Turkey in order to determine the problems especially language related problems, which people who immigrated in 1989 and afterwards to Turkey came across and their effects on their identities. To be able to find proper results qualitative method was used in this study. In-depth interviews were conducted to understand the difficulties in relation to language inabilities, adaptation problems, perceptions, acceptance or exclusion. So the research questions are: What were the problems of immigrants who moved from Bulgaria to Turkey? and How did these problems affect their identities? The novelty of this research is that it is focused on not only to people who emigrated but also their children who were born either in Bulgaria or in Turkey. So, it is possible to make comparison among the people who lived the act of moving and their children whom may also have lived or just felt it in their lives. This also makes it possible to determine changes in time.

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On Immigrant Radicalism and Immigrant Nihilism - Thoughts on Migrations from the Middle East to Turkey

Author(s): Mehmet Evkuran / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

No matter the reason, recent immigration from the Middle East to Turkey is not just a 'displacement'. It will have a deep and lasting impact on people. Migrant individuals and groups are forced to rethink their perspectives on the world and their personal values deradicalizing themselves as a consequence. This radical position is usually a result of the strife affecting their peace and comfort at home. Migration, if it is caused by civil war, or other traumatic events, may lead to the reversal of values or increased radical returns to their cultural and ethical values and beliefs. An immigrant who is deliberating between nihilism and radicalism has to try various ways to solve this dilemma.

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Put the Burden on Whom? Transit or Destination Countries: The Cases of Greece and Croatia

Author(s): Rukiye Deniz / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Europe has been experiencing an influx of migrants since mid-2015. Several people try to reach Europe in search of a better life away from their war-devastated homelands. Their first entry into Europe is mainly the countries close to their homelands. Greece, therefore, has been the focus of the international community due to vast numbers of persons reaching its shores every single day, especially since the escalation of the Syrian civil war. Selected as a hotspot, it received assistance from the European Union. On the other hand, Croatia has been unexpectedly subjected to thousands of migrants within a short period of time. Eventually, it was awarded financial support from the Union. Upon migrant crisis, the EU introduced new mechanisms to support the states facing migrant influx. In this article, measures and attempts by the European Union to support Greece and Croatia in handling the migrant crisis are reviewed. The article tries to answer to what extent such attempts have been successful in assisting Greece and Croatia.

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