1st Edition
Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border Antakya at the Crossroads
1. Introduction: War, Displacement and Encounters at the Border 2. Fragile Diversities: Antakya (Hatay) as a Border City 3. Refugee Encounters: Border Regime and Syrianness 4. Urban Encounters: Negotiating State, Identity and Labor 5. Encounters of the Political: Cultural Revival after 2011 6. Conclusion Index
Biography
Şule Can is an anthropologist who received her doctoral degree from Binghamton University (SUNY), USA. She is currently a Research Associate at Binghamton University, Department of Anthropology andAcademic Chair of the Institute for the Middle Eastern Arab Peoples, Turkey.
"Border towns are often zones of transition in which foreigners challenge the authority of the country of arrival and also places in which state formation and local ethnic and religious identities are being negotiated. In this insightful book, the anthropologist Sule Can carefully explores how the multiplicity of ethnic and religious groups, brought to the Turkish border town of Antakya following the civil war in Syria, is being inserted into dominant discourses and practices." - Jan Rath, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
"This well-researched ethnography goes beyond the lexicon of ‘crisis’ to explore negotiations of identity among Syrian refugees living in an urban periphery along the Turkish-Syrian border. Its multifaceted and nuanced analysis makes an important contribution to border studies and advances our understanding of the long Syrian war." - Kristin V. Monroe, University of Kentucky, United States of America
"With its ethnographic focus on urban encounters between Syrian refugees, state actors, and Alawite citizens in Turkey’s border town Antakya, this book offers a fresh look into sectarianism, ethnoreligious boundaries, and displacement in the contemporary Middle East—and beyond. A must read for scholars of migration, borders, and refugee lives." - Secil Dagtas, University of Waterloo, Canada
