Browsing by Subject "Diaspora"

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A case in diaspora nationalism : Crimean Tatars in Turkey
(2000) Aydın, Filiz Tutku
"Diaspora", an old phenomenon, signifying dispersed people outside their homeland, who sustain their ties with their homeland and their co-ethnics, highly mobilized in politics in recent years, certainly in a new form. This thesis suggests the term “diaspora nationalism” for this unique phenomenon. As “diaspora nationalism” is based on the triadic relationship of homeland, host-state and diaspora community, it differentiates from mainstream nationalisms. While challenging the dominant conceptualizations of nationalism, in fact diaspora nationalism reconstructs nation and ethnicity in a global framework. Therefore it necessitates a new conceptual tool for fully appreciating its features. "Transnationalism", which is a new term to denote the relations across the borders, provides us with the adequate conceptual tool. The rising diaspora nationalism of the Crimean Tatars in recent years can only be fully apprehended in the light of this conceptual framework. With this conceptualization of diaspora nationalism, this study specifies, periodises, and tries to analyse the diaspora nationalism of the Crimean Tatars in Turkey, by also suggesting the case for further theoretical and historical inquiry. Having transnational and hybrid features, Crimean Tatar diaspora nationalism faces with different problems and find different solutions, which in the end contribute to the “new politics” in the global era.
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The colective Turkish home in viena: aesthetic naratives of migration and belonging
(Routledge, 2010) Savaş, Ö.
This article explores how Turkish people in Vienna create a collective sense of belonging and position themselves in a complex web of diasporic relations, through the materiality and aesthetics of their homes. It aims to show how the efforts of displaced people to construct a belonging to the new place of dwelling are intertwined with the aesthetic and material practices of making homes. Based on ethnographic research, it will be argued that a particular "Turkish home" is collectively created through shared aesthetic practices and discourses and serves as a material and social medium both for imagining and building collectivities and for constructing and expressing ambiguities, conflicts, multiplicities and contests, played out in the aesthetics of the everyday. Challenging the common view that homes in diasporic or migratory resettlements reflect past lives and locations or a mixture of two cultures and two sets of different objects associated with them, it will be argued that Turkish homes in Vienna are made through a new and particular aesthetic, which serves to produce and reproduce a communal Turkish narrative of migration to and dwelling in Vienna. © BERG 2010.
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Dünden bugüne İstanbul Kafkas Kültür Derneği
(Bilkent University, 2022) Dinçer, Perit; Işık, Ali Tunahan; Ünal, Ali Deniz; Kavlak, Kayra
Araştırmada İstanbul Kafkas Kültür Derneği’nin 1952’deki kuruluşundan yeni milenyumun başlangıcına kadar gelişimi ve faaliyetleri işlendi. Bu zaman aralığında derneğin nasıl zorluklarla karşılaştığı, toplumda nasıl etkileri olduğu, gerçekleştirdiği faaliyetlerin amaçları ve içeriği hakkında bilgi verildi.
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Hacıturhanoğlu ailesi’nin Bulgaristan’dan Türkiye’ye göç süreci
(Bilkent University, 2021) Kökçüler, İsmail Yaşar; Bilici, Ercan; Yevgi, İlke Bilge; Gündüz, Oğuzhan; Kayabaş, Ulaş
Bulgar hükümetinin Türk azınlık üzerinde uyguladığı çeşitli baskılar sonucunda başlayan göç dalgalarının devamı olan 1989 göçünün hem Bulgaristan göçmenleri hem de Türk halkı üzerinde çeşitli etkileri olmuştur. Bu çalışmada; göçmen ailelerden biri olan Hacıturhanoğlu ailesi özelinde 1989 Bulgaristan Göçü ile Türkiye’ye gelen Bulgaristan Türklerini göç etme kararı almaya iten sebepler, göçmenlerin göç sırasında yaşadıkları zorluklar, göç sonrasında Türk toplumu üzerinde etkileri ve toplumla uyum sürecinde karşılaştıkları durumlar incelenecektir. Göçmenlerin göç öncesi ve sonrasındaki yaşantılarının karşılaştırmalı analizi yapılacak, bu göçün iki toplum arasındaki ilişkilere etkileri değerlendirilecektir.
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Mardin Süryanileri gözünden Deyrulzafaran Manastırı
(Bilkent University, 2023) Akar, Ali Mert; Demirci, Ekin Hazal; Ekinci, Cemile Bilge; Usta, Zeynep Yaren; Taşbağ, Ceren
Birçok etnik gruptan insanın yıllar boyunca yaşadığı Mezopotamya, en köklü etnik gruplardan birisi olan Süryanilere de ev sahipliği yapmıştır. Mardin’de bulunan Deyrulzafaran Manastırı, inşa edilmeye başlandığı tarihten itibaren her zaman Süryani kültürünün bir parçası olmuştur. Hristiyanlık öncesi güneş tapınağı olarak kullanılan Deyrulzafaran Manastırı, Hristiyanlık tarihinde Patrikhane olarak öne çıkmasına karşın, Patrikhane özelliğini kaybettiğinde de Süryaniler için önemli bir rol oynamaya devam etmiştir. Bu araştırmada Süryaniler olarak adlandırılan etnik grubun nasıl ortaya çıktığı, yıllar içerisinde nasıl gelişim gösterdiği ve nasıl süreçlerden geçtiği ele alınmıştır. Bu değerlendirmeler Süryani kültürü hocası ve Midyat Süryani Kültürü Derneği başkanı olarak görev yapmakta olan Ayhan Gürkan ile birlikte yapılmıştır. Bununla birlikte Deyrulzafaran Manastırı başrahibi Gabriel Akkurt ile yapılan röportajda Deyrulzafaran Manastırı’nın tarihi gelişimi ve önemine değinilmiştir. Aynı zamanda Mardin Süryanileri’nin gözünden Deyrulzafaran Manastırı’nın öneminden bahsedilmiştir.
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“Post tenebras lux” the Huguenot diaspora in Early Modern London and its reflections in refugee wills
(2021-08) Saral Barbaros, Hazal
Starting from the mid 16th century, Huguenots, namely French Protestants took refuge in countries that offered them toleration, due to persecution and suppression they were exposed to in France. Until the late 18th century, the Huguenot diaspora continued to flourish in many places, especially in Swiss Cantons, Holland, Germany, and England with consecutive migration waves. So far, most research has focused on exile, the features of the Huguenot refugee communities, and the contribution of the Huguenots to their host societies. However, the dynamics and process of assimilation have been generally neglected. This thesis aims to provide an insight into the Huguenot condition in London between the 17th century and early 19th century and present inference about the integration process of the refugees throughout the years and generations by analysing the data compiled from sample refugee wills.
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Taste diaspora: the aesthetic and material practice of belonging
(Sage Publications, 2014) Savaş, Ö.
A particular 'Turkish taste in Vienna', which has been formed through experiences of migration from Turkey and resettlement in Vienna, serves as a significant aesthetic and social medium for constituting a collective sense of belonging. This article explores how Turkish people in Vienna constitute, perform and enunciate belongings through practices and discourses around travelling forms and spaces of material culture. Underpinned by an ethnography founded on a repertoire of Turkish objects in Vienna, this article addresses the relational constitution of a particular taste and a diasporic belonging within a specific context of displacement and relocation of both people and material objects. 'Taste diaspora' refers to a certain diasporic sphere that is formed through a collective taste in material objects and enunciated in the aesthetics of the everyday. © The Author(s) 2014.