“We Live Like Sea Foam”: Experiences Of Liminality Among Afghan Migrants In Ceza City-Turkey

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Ozlatimoghaddam, Maryam

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This study attempts to better understand gender relations in the process of resettlement among families of Afghan forced migrants in Turkey. In addition it tries to gain an insight into whether those gender relations have been changed by this migration. In order to ascertain these possible changes a field study including participant observation, in depth interviews and interviews with experts was conducted in a city in Central Anatolia to which Afghan migrants are assigned. Since 2007 Afghan asylum-seekers represent a new event in Turkey. They have admitted the right to seek asylum in Turkey very recently. Furthermore, as their population has risen to become the third largest of the non-European asylum seekers in Turkey; there is a need for more research about them and the associated issues. The research findings demonstrate patterns of changes concerning gender relations. Changes can be explained by using the concepts of liminality. Those changes sometimes accommodated emancipation for women; alongside this the opposite occurred too. Liminality produced different patterns of gender relations.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21326

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M. Ozlatimoghaddam, ““We Live Like Sea Foam”: Experiences Of Liminality Among Afghan Migrants In Ceza City-Turkey,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.