Limits to temporary protection: non-camp Syrian refugees in İzmir, Turkey

‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey

“…Yaylacı and Karakuş (2015) undertook content analysis of the mainstream Turkish newspaper coverage on Syrian refugees, arguing that the newspapers' general attitudes towards the Turkish government strongly affected their news about Syrian refugees. Furthermore, Yıldız and Uzgören (2016) conducted interviews with Syrians in Izmir on their experiences living in Turkey and with the Turkish communities on their perceptions on Syrians, concluding that most Syrians in their sample faced not much discrimination on the basis of their nationality, but experienced socioeconomic challenges about housing, employment and education. In the existing literature, online political reaction to Syrians has not been examined, except for a comparative study of Turkish and English tweets on 'the refugee crisis' from a SA and data-mining perspective (Öztürk and Ayvaz, 2018), without an engagement with the problematic nature of the public discourse of 'the Syrian problem' in Turkey and beyond.…”

Schools and Refugee Children: The Case of Syrians in Turkey

“…In response to the increasing number of immigrants, immigrant integration has become a burning issue in these societies (Erder, ). The pressure on these countries is noteworthy, because they have little prior experience with immigrants and often lack the institutional set‐up for promoting integration (Yıldız and Uzgören, ). Furthermore, the rapid, massive, uncontrolled and irregular character of the recent migration poses challenges to the conventional assimilation and integration theories (Alba and Foner, ) and complicates ways of possible immigrant adaptation in these countries.…”

A Feminist Geographic Reading of Masculinities: Syrian Entrepreneurs in İzmir

“…As there is few researches on migrant men's masculinities (Bozok and Bozok, 2017;Göktuna-Yaylacı and Çarpar, 2019) in Turkey, this work also offers a step in locating masculine performances. In addition, although Syrians in İzmir have been discussed by scholars in varying perspectives (Oner et al 2020;Yıldız and Uzgören, 2016), there is no research on the constructions of migrant masculinities. Hence, providing knowledge on masculinities and spatiality from a feminist geographical perspective would enable researchers to have a robust understandings of plural masculinities and also to map masculinities in the 'periphery' where is overlooked.…”