What poverty and social exclusion brings to the household: a case study of Zazaki housewives’ beadwork in Adana

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2024-5

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Bolkan, Elenur

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This thesis investigates a home-based beadwork performed by a group of migrant Zazaki women living in a slum neighborhood of Adana. The aim of the research is to reveal how these women, who are located at the intersection of social exclusion, poverty, and gender, participate in the informal sector and how their ethnicity affects their empowerment and exploitation. The findings of the research have showed that Zazaki men with the same ethnic identity are involved in a large trade by exploiting women and ignore their labor despite the fact that they are able to develop economically thanks to women. The dominant patriarchal values in the society in which women live devalue their labor and act as a barrier to women's empowerment.

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Social Exclusion, Poverty, Gender, Informal Economy, Home-Based Work

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109534

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis