Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Güney, Ülkü

Titel

Syrian Refugees between Turkish Nationalism and Citizenship

Ist Teil von

• Journal of immigrant & refugee studies, 2022-10, Vol.20 (4), p.519-532

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article explores local people's attitudes toward the naturalization of the Syrian refugees in Turkey. Based upon fieldwork data, I explored the way the people of Bolu construct Syrian refugees as the "Other" on the grounds of citizenship and the way these narratives reproduce a nationalistic discourse in Turkey. The results indicated that the people reject granting citizenship for ideological reasons and on the grounds of a subjective nationalistic understanding of nation-state membership. Simultaneously, extending such citizenship rights as state welfare (healthcare and education) was seen as a social right or courtesy toward their Muslim neighbors.