Refugee Encounters At the Turkish-Syrian Border - Antakya At the Crossroads

This book explores experiences of Syrian refugees in the Turkish-Syrian borderlands, as they struggle to settle and to negotiate their position with the Turkish state and with different sectarian and religious groups.

List of contents

1. Introduction: War, Displacement and Encounters at the Border 2. Fragile Diversities: Antakya (Hatay) as a Border City 3. Refugee Encounters: Border Regime and Syrianness 4. Urban Encounters: Negotiating State, Identity and Labor 5. Encounters of the Political: Cultural Revival after 2011 6. Conclusion Index

About the author

Şule Can is an anthropologist who received her doctoral degree from Binghamton University (SUNY), USA. She is currently a Research Associate at Binghamton University, Department of Anthropology and□Academic Chair of the Institute for the Middle Eastern Arab Peoples, Turkey.

Summary

This book explores experiences of Syrian refugees in the Turkish-Syrian borderlands, as they struggle to settle and to negotiate their position with the Turkish state and with different sectarian and religious groups.

Product details

• Authors: &. Can, ¿Ule Can, Sule Can, Şule Can
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2019
• EAN: 9781138393400
• ISBN: 978-1-138-39340-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Borderlands Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Syria, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Turkey, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Development Studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Türkiye / Turkey