Refugees and Guesthood in Turkey
| dc.contributor.author | Abdelaaty, Lamis | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-09T20:42:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-09T20:42:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Even as Turkey took in over three million Syrians at great expense, Turkish officials were referring to these individuals as guests rather than refugees. Despite significant legal developments in the country, and particularly the formalization of a temporary protection regime, this choice of labels reveals the influence of underlying political trends on Turkish policy-making regarding refugees. This paper compares Turkey’s reactions to the Syrian inflow with its responses to previous refugee groups, including Iraqis in 1988, Bosnians in 1992, Kosovars in 1998, and Chechens starting 1999. In so doing, it demonstrates that the refusal to designate certain populations as asylum-seekers or refugees enables Turkey to opt in or out of what might otherwise appear to be generally-applicable, national-level policies. Through these strategic semantics, policymakers retain a freedom to maneuver in response to international and domestic political incentives. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | For comments on previous versions of this article, the author wishes to thank Audie Klotz, Daniel McDowell, Rebecca Hamlin, Rochelle Davis, Bas°ak Yavc ̧ an and participants at the Symposium on From Temporary Protection to Permanent Settlement at Northwestern University, Syracuse University’s Maxwell Citizenship Initiative Brown Bag, and the Moynihan Research Workshop at Syracuse University. Interview research for this project was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award # 1121194). Archival research was funded by a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society and an Appleby-Mosher Faculty Research Grant from Syracuse University. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lamis Abdelaaty, Refugees and Guesthood in Turkey, Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 2827–2848, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez097 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1471-6925 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez097 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/41197 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Refugee Studies, following peer review. The version of record is Lamis Abdelaaty, Refugees and Guesthood in Turkey, Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 2827–2848, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez097. | en_US |
| dc.title | Refugees and Guesthood in Turkey | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |