Browsing by Subject "Humanitarian aid"

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Confronting gendered constructions of refugee deservingness and representations: Syrian refugee women strategising for humanitarian aid in Turkey
(Routledge, 2022-12-12) Zadhy, Aminath Nisha; Erman, Tahire
This study shows how Syrian refugee women living in Ankara cope with their systematically enforced dependency on humanitarian aid through individual and collective agency as they negotiate their inclusion into categories of deservingness and attempt to maintain this inclusion. We argue that the gendered discourses used to delineate deservingness categories in the humanitarian field clash heavily with the portrayal of Syrian refugees in Turkish public discourse. Our qualitative data demonstrate how notions in the humanitarian field about women’s role in the family as nurturing homemakers, assumptions about their innate docility as vulnerable refugees and the contrasting portrayals in Turkish society of Syrian refugee women as sexualised threats to the Turkish family shape their agentive negotiations and subsequently lead to multiple tensions. We also highlight how the centrality of gender in the discursive framing of refugees in Turkey produces the idealised refugee in the figure of the widowed refugee mother. By problematising how refugee women’s agency play out, we intervene in the discussion about the gendered terrains of refugeehood and provide empirical weight for the exploration of the paradoxes in the humanitarian field that refugee women struggle to resolve.
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Gendered social imaginaries in the Turkish humanitarian field: the strategies of Syrian refugee women to reach aid
(2022-12) Zadhy, Aminath Nisha
This dissertation investigates how Syrian refugee women in Ankara cope with their systematically enforced dependency on humanitarian aid. It uses gendered social imaginary as the theoretical framework. With the initial premise that refugeehood is a gendered experience where gender is a logic of organising humanitarian aid, it demonstrates how actors in the humanitarian field deploy gendered templates at both organisational and interpersonal levels. Paying particular attention to the interactions between humanitarian aid workers and refugee women sheds light on how gendered social imaginaries are drawn from templates emerging from discursive constructions that delineate deservingness categories in the humanitarian field. While female vulnerability predominantly associated with refugee women is a vital template guiding humanitarian enactments, the study exposes how refugee women have to simultaneously contend with contrasting gendered templates that act as barriers to their access to aid, leading them to rationalise specific behaviour in response and deploy specific strategies as they attempt to conform to the role of the ideal humanitarian subject. In the field study, in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 20 refugee women and aid workers were conducted, complemented by participant observation in multiple sites in Ankara where Syrian refugees are concentrated. The data from the field study further illustrated the significance of humanitarian aid practices along the formal-informal axis when examined at three levels – the national, the district and the neighbourhood.
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Türk-Yunan ilişkilerinde Kurtuluş Vapurunun önemi
(Bilkent University, 2023) Yoldaş, Enes; Demir, Ezgi; Budak, Başak; Arslan, Ata Muhammet; Sayarlıoğlu, Mehmet Fatih
İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Almanya ve İtalya tarafından işgal edilen Yunanistan’da, büyük bir açlık ve sefalet ortaya çıktı. Normalde gıda ihtiyacını ithal eden Yunanistan, tarım faaliyetlerinin aksaması ve yirminci yüzyılın en ser t kışı ile yüz yüze kalması nedeni ile dışa bağımlı oldu. 1941 sonbaharından sonra Yunanistan’da "Büyük Açlık” diye tabir edilen dönem başladı. Yüz binlerce insanın açlık ve salgın hastalıklardan öldüğü bu dönemde, Yunanistan’a dostluk elini uzatan ilk ülke Türkiye oldu. Kızılay ve diğer yardım kuruluşlarıyla gıda maddeleri ve sağlık malzemeleri gönderen Türkiye, bu yardımları Kurtuluş Vapuru ile yaptı. Bu yardımların sembolü haline gelen Kurtuluş Vapuru, sadece maddi destek değil, aynı zamanda manevi destek de sağlayarak Atina’ya umut taşıyordu. Kurtuluş vapuru, altıncı seferine çıktığı sırada yoğun fırtına nedeni ile battı. Bu durum Türkiye’nin Yunanistan’a yaptığı yardımların önünü kesmedi. Kurtuluş Vapuru yerine Dumlupınar Vapuru ‘nu kiralayan Türkiye, yardımları kaldığı yerden devam ettirdi.