Considering Survival of Unaccompanied Afghan Migrant Children in Beykoz, Karasu Neighborhood with “Migrant Aspirations” Perspective
Journal Title: Moment Dergi - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
This article discusses the survival experiences of unaccompanied Afghan migrant minors in Karasu Neighborhood, Beykoz, Istanbul. The qualitative fieldwork of this research was conducted between July 2015 and August 2017, making interviews with Afghan migrant minors and community dwellers. This article is theoretically grounded on the premises of “migrant aspirations” approach. As a new perspective in migration studies, rather than seeing migrants as a part of integration issues, “migrant aspirations” approach proposes considering the migrant as the active subject of migration experience. With that framework, this article proposes considering Afghan migrant minors in Karasu Neighborhood as the active decisionmakers of migration process. Secondly, it considers them as active subjects who make negotiations in order to manage proper social distances in the neighborhood. Lastly, it considers Afghan migrant children as subjects who develop strategies in order to survive in labor market, where they are exploited as unaccompanied child workers
Authors and Affiliations
Nihan Bozok, Mehmet Bozok
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP533678
- DOI 10.17572/mj2018.2.416440
- Views 138
- Downloads 0
Media-Related Changes as Finite Processes: A Response to Ece Algan
I am very grateful to Ece Algan for taking the trouble to comment on my article ‘The diachronic ethnography of media: from social changing to actual social changes’ (Postill, 2017) and to Moment journal for this opportun...
Appearance of Creative Industries in Transcendental Sphere: Effect of Creative Industries on Colonization of the Lifeworld
The concept of creative industry has begun to find a place both in scientific literature and everyday life as an obligation of over-technical-capitalist societies in the 1990s. According to the Habermasian approach consi...
DO YOU LOVE ME? INTERVIEWS OF AHSEN TV AS IDEOLOGY BECOMING QUOTIDIAN
In this study Ahsen TV, which is an online video site and participated in Akit TV is examined. It is thought that Ahsen TV reveals some clues on the process of the popularization of Sunni Islam. The videos circulated on...
War of the Chefs: Women and Men Chefs in Professional Kitchens
Unlike the domestic kitchen that is counted as the space of women, the professional kitchens are seen as a space of men. As a part of the division of labor according to gender, cooking is a part of women’s role and the k...
Creative Labour in Turkey
In recent years, the political and academic discourse focusing on the economic potential of creative cultural industries is raising. The idea of creative culture industries which focuses on creativity and symbol producti...