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Making Room for Refugee Interpretation of Labelling: A Case Study from the Turkish–Syrian Border.
- Source :
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Refugee Survey Quarterly . Dec2023, Vol. 42 Issue 4, p403-428. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Turkey admitted millions of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. However, the situation of Syrians in Turkey remains precarious under the temporary protection regime, unable to qualify as Convention refugees due to Turkey's geographic reservation to the 1967 Protocol and with limited access to work permits and citizenship. Based on in-depth interviews, we provide a case study of refugee perspectives on refugee "labelling" as an absurd, historically contingent, and myth-telling process, which contributes to a growing body of research taking a bottom-up approach to understanding refugee protection. We put forward a refugee-interpreted view on labelling, finding that refugees explained labelling as an opaque and unpredictable digitised process, administrated through paper documents which act as talismans but also scams. Our study provides rich detail about how refugees subvert and cope with the labelling process through humour and mockery, historicity, and developing alternate forms of identity. We sought to use these interviews to work with refugees to turn a critical gaze on the paradigm of labelling from a refugee perspective and address the lack of empirical research centring refugee interpretations of labelling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SYRIAN refugees
*GAZE
*SYRIAN Civil War, 2011-
*REFUGEES
*CIVIL war
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10204067
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Refugee Survey Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174030183
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdad015