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This article explores hospitality as a key rhetorical framework for refugee management in Turkey by focusing on how host‐guest relations are mobilized to represent, interpret, and problematize the current state of affairs regarding Syrian refugees, as well as to formulate policies. It analyses the transformation of hospitality rhetoric, the notion of 'compulsory guesthood', and the most recent social cohesion initiatives. I argue that host‐guest metaphors are used to assert power and leverage both domestically and internationally by exerting sovereign control over a post‐imperial nation‐space, performing neo‐imperial guardianship over the downtrodden, and claiming an ethno‐religious, civilizational morality that exceeds the legalistic logic of human rights and entitlements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most revealing accounts of the permit regime emerge from Berda's own experiences wrestling with the Israeli judiciary on behalf of "two hundred Palestinian clients in their attempt to obtain various types of movement permits" (p. 9). Berda's and Erakat's books are essential reads, not just for those who wish to understand the central place of law in both Palestinian liberation and Israel's expansionist policies. B I Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank i b Yael Berda (Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1]) B I Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine i b Noura Erakat (Stanford: Stanford University Press, [3]) Few subjects are as entangled with the law as the Palestinian question. [Extracted from the article]