Loss and xenophobia in the city: contextualizing anti-Syrian sentiments in Izmir, Turkey

Many research reports and scholarly articles based on survey data show that public opinion in Turkey towards Syrians has become more negative in recent years. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in four research sites in Izmir, Saraçoğlu and Bélanger show that anxiety about losing a preconceiv...

Celý popis

Uložené v:
Podrobná bibliografia
Vydané v:Patterns of prejudice Ročník 53; číslo 4; s. 363 - 383
Hlavní autori: Saraçoğlu, Cenk, Bélanger, Danièle
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Abingdon Routledge 08.08.2019
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Predmet:
Anxiety
Attitudes
Economic conditions
Ethnography
Fieldwork
Interpersonal relations
Islamism
Justice and Development Party (AKP)
loss
Political ideologies
Public opinion
Racism
Refugees
Secularism
Social cohesion
Social relations
Syrian refugees
Turkey
Urban areas
urban space
Working class
Xenophobia
Syria
Turkey
ISSN:0031-322X, 1461-7331
On-line prístup:Získať plný text
Tagy: Pridať tag
Žiadne tagy, Buďte prvý, kto otaguje tento záznam!
Popis
Shrnutí:Many research reports and scholarly articles based on survey data show that public opinion in Turkey towards Syrians has become more negative in recent years. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in four research sites in Izmir, Saraçoğlu and Bélanger show that anxiety about losing a preconceived notion of status is constitutive of the local Turkish population's attitudes towards the inflow of Syrian refugees. The perception of loss that frames xenophobic attitudes against the Syrians appears in three different but related forms: (1) loss of economic gains; (2) loss of urban space; and (3) loss of national cohesion. By focusing on the ways in which this sense of loss is constructed in urban social relations, Saraçoğlu and Bélanger aim to unpack some embedded political, ideological and economic conditions that provide fertile ground for the formation of anti-Syrian xenophobia. Their analysis contributes to and goes beyond the relevant literature that descriptively demonstrates the extent to which anti-Syrian xenophobia is prevalent across Turkey.
Bibliografia:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
ISSN:0031-322X
1461-7331
DOI:10.1080/0031322X.2019.1615779