GENDERED VIOLENCE, EXPLOITATION AND RESISTANCE: EXPERIENCES OF IRANIAN REFUGEE WOMEN IN YALOVA

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Dinçer, Cemile Gizem

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My dissertation focuses on the experiences of Iranian refugee women in Turkey who await resettlement in Canada, the USA, and various European Countries. Asylum seekers from countries such as Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq are assigned to satellite cities in Turkey until their resettlement. The lives of refugees waiting without any social or financial support are deeply shaped by satellite city regulation, and the satellite city emerges as an important category of analysis to understand the multifaceted experiences of refugees in Turkey. Based on ten months of ethnographic research with a feminist methodology in one of those satellite cities — namely Yalova — I ask, how do refugee women experience satellite city restrictions, labor exploitation, and gendered violence during their period of waiting in Turkey and, what kind of strategies do they use to resist these oppressive conditions? With a focus on Iranian women, my research demonstrates that their experience in Yalova entails multiple and multi-layered forms of gendered violence, ranging from encounters with legal system down to their everyday practices, all while being exposed to fierce exploitation in the informal labor market, compounded by the constant looming threat of deportation. However, by cultivating solidarity, they also create ways to navigate and negotiate the restrictions of the asylum regime and never give up claiming their lives. By locating women’s experiences at the center of the research, I aim to make refugee women’s experiences and the structures that reshape them visible and to map the relationship between heteropatriarchy, racism, and capitalism.

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Iranian, refugee women, gendered violence, labor exploitation, resistance

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C. G. Dinçer, “GENDERED VIOLENCE, EXPLOITATION AND RESISTANCE: EXPERIENCES OF IRANIAN REFUGEE WOMEN IN YALOVA,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.