The Refugee’s Passage: Liminality, Gendered Habits and the Emergence of Difference in Flight

Hudson, Leila

doi:10.5040/9781350989801.ch-002

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…not since leaving Syria had they faced such a risk of death. 48 As Leila Hudson notes, travel over the Aegean is a desperate attempt to escape labor exploitation, language challenges, and an uncertain future in Turkey, as well as the shocks and reverberations of trauma accumulated in Turkey. The journey involves risking one's life and often spending the remainder of one's resources.…”

Section: Travel Over the Aegeanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Death on the Aegean Borderland

Sanders

2022

Mashriq&Mahjar

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this article, I seek to change our understanding of necropolitics with regard to how host states and refugees themselves deal with their dead. Through technocratic practices for the former, and biophysical violence for the latter, I provide a reading of existing practices of processing the dead in which state and national boundaries follow migrants into the ground. I explore the necropolitics of displacement in order to understand Syrian affective experiences of shock, or sadma, under borderland policies, Turkish governance, and practices of intimate sovereignty in refugee deaths. Death for Syrian refugees on Turkey’s borderlands is the culmination of a series of transnational and local governance practices. It is also part of the material landscape of refugee displacement and of the Turkish government’s care sector—the processing of bodies and the conducting of funerary services. These services are meant to respond respectfully to frequent migrant deaths, despite the Turkish government’s warnings about the dangers of crossing the Aegean through human smuggling and the enhanced policing of the Aegean borderland meant to deter irregular crossings. For Syrians, however, police conduct on the Aegean borderland and the government’s management of memorials are contentious issues that enhance their sense of the necropolitical practices of governance and experiences of them as sadma. This work seeks to change our understanding of necropolitics with regard to how host states and refugees themselves deal with their dead, through twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork with Syrian refugees in Izmir, Turkey in 2017–2018.

show abstract

Section: Travel Over the Aegeanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Death on the Aegean Borderland

Sanders

2022

Mashriq&Mahjar

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

The Refugee’s Passage: Liminality, Gendered Habits and the Emergence of Difference in Flight

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

Death on the Aegean Borderland

Death on the Aegean Borderland

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About