Author
Rottmann, Susan Beth, Nimer, M.
Publication Date
2021-09
Publication Place
-
Oxford University Press
Subject
Agency, Gender, Hospitality, Refugee, Social class, Social integration
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
2049-5838
Record ID
3101acc9-5c7c-482d-ab8d-9994f06bd78b
Library Location
Humanities and Social Sciences
Date
2021-09
Notes
Sabanci University ; European Union’s Horizon 2020
Sample Text
This article examines social relations for Syrian women in Istanbul by focusing on micro-level lived relationships of hospitality. Through an ethnographic, qualitative approach to key sites of encounter, the article explores how migrants navigate a public milieu in which hospitality has partially been taken away from the local community's moral oversight in a context of a national political discourse on hospitality. We also analyze 'hosting' and 'guesting' as mutually negotiated and contested practices. This study highlights the agency and resistance strategies of Syrian women to their 'differential inclusion' into Turkish society. It examines how they navigate (in)hospitality and also unpacks the use of virtuous dimensions of hospitality (1) to reverse discriminatory ethnic and class discourses and renegotiate subjectivities that are imposed upon them as 'guests'; (2) to bring forward perceived cultural similarities between Syria and Turkey; and (3) to revalorize their roles and status in their families. The contribution of this study is to focus on hospitality as a means of theorizing how women navigate complex and conflicting, familiar and yet also new, social ecologies as they make themselves at home.
DOI
10.1093/migration/mnab005
Cilt
9
