Considering Survival of Unaccompanied Afghan Migrant Children in Beykoz, Karasu Neighborhood with “Migrant Aspirations” Perspective
Journal Title: Moment Dergi - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
This article discusses the survival experiences of unaccompanied Afghan migrant minors in Karasu Neighborhood, Beykoz, Istanbul. The qualitative fieldwork of this research was conducted between July 2015 and August 2017, making interviews with Afghan migrant minors and community dwellers. This article is theoretically grounded on the premises of “migrant aspirations” approach. As a new perspective in migration studies, rather than seeing migrants as a part of integration issues, “migrant aspirations” approach proposes considering the migrant as the active subject of migration experience. With that framework, this article proposes considering Afghan migrant minors in Karasu Neighborhood as the active decisionmakers of migration process. Secondly, it considers them as active subjects who make negotiations in order to manage proper social distances in the neighborhood. Lastly, it considers Afghan migrant children as subjects who develop strategies in order to survive in labor market, where they are exploited as unaccompanied child workers
Authors and Affiliations
Nihan Bozok, Mehmet Bozok
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP533678
- DOI 10.17572/mj2018.2.416440
- Views 109
- Downloads 0
Reinterpreting Crisis Communications in the Post-Truth Era
As we enter a new era marked by changing values, driven by disruptive technologies and leading to the erosion of trust, organizations today are facing crises at greater frequency than in the past. Transformation is a phe...
Combat of Voices: Female Voices in Iris Murdoch’s Nuns and Soldiers
Iris Murdoch, a writer with a profound understanding of the importance of creating voices/selves, often explored human truths that are timeless in her novels. Bakhtin developed a frame of work in which he mainly aimed at...
Religious Pluralism and Religious Consumption Culture in The Public Sphere
Even if we are not able to argue that religion is a reality which produces symbols for social life, we can speak of it functioning as a shield against several pains of modernism with its properties of providing confidenc...
Ethnographic Research at the Intersections of Everyday Life, Power Relations and Ethical Codes
Ethnographic research aims to understand people’s relation to all aspects of life including nature, culture, things, imagination, practice on their own terms. This research method is based on a long-term and intimate rel...
Subjectivities and Affective Wisdom in Spiritual Self-Help: Allah De Ötesini Bırak
This article focuses on a best-seller that can be identified as a self-help book (Allah De Ötesini Bırak / Say Allah Leave the Rest) and it considers its relationship with the dominant socio-cultural narrative style. Thr...