Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey Developing Gender-Sensitivity in Migration Research, Policy and Practice

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2020-01-01

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Coşkun, Emel
Kaşka, Selmin
Williams, Lucy

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DescriptionThis book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to and from Turkey, using feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences of migrant women as refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented or documented migrants. The collection includes contributions from researchers, practitioners, and migrants themselves to present a nuanced analysis that challenges binary divisions between ‘forced’ and ‘voluntary’ migrants and highlights the political and social agency of refugee and migrant women in Turkey. Drawing on a rich body of original empirical and theoretical research the volume explores recent policy change in Turkey, the political and social influences that have shaped migration policy (both internally and globally), and how women migrants have been positioned within its changing refugee and migration regimes.Analysis of the Turkish experience of redesigning migration policy in a country with weak civil protection against gender discrimination provides important lessons, in particular for countries in the Global South that are under pressure from the Global North to control and manage migrant flows. This interdisciplinary volume offers gender-sensitive recommendations for policymakers and practitioners and will advance global debates on migration management and governance across the fields of sociology, social policy, anthropology, labour economics and political science.

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-28887-7
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/97994

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E. Coşkun, S. Kaşka, and L. Williams, Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey Developing Gender-Sensitivity in Migration Research, Policy and Practice. 2020.