Making Room for Refugee Interpretation of Labelling: A Case Study from the Turkish–Syrian Border

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Refugee Survey Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI:10.1093/rsq/hdad015

Kathryn Hampton, Gökçe Türkyilmaz

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Abstract

Abstract Turkey admitted millions of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. However, the situation of Syrians in Turkey remains precarious under the temporary protection regime, unable to qualify as Convention refugees due to Turkey’s geographic reservation to the 1967 Protocol and with limited access to work permits and citizenship. Based on in-depth interviews, we provide a case study of refugee perspectives on refugee “labelling” as an absurd, historically contingent, and myth-telling process, which contributes to a growing body of research taking a bottom-up approach to understanding refugee protection. We put forward a refugee-interpreted view on labelling, finding that refugees explained labelling as an opaque and unpredictable digitised process, administrated through paper documents which act as talismans but also scams. Our study provides rich detail about how refugees subvert and cope with the labelling process through humour and mockery, historicity, and developing alternate forms of identity. We sought to use these interviews to work with refugees to turn a critical gaze on the paradigm of labelling from a refugee perspective and address the lack of empirical research centring refugee interpretations of labelling.

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为难民对标签的解读腾出空间:以土耳其-叙利亚边境为例

土耳其接纳了数百万逃离叙利亚内战的难民。然而，在临时保护制度下，土耳其境内叙利亚人的情况仍然不稳定，由于土耳其对1967年议定书的地理保留，他们无法成为公约难民，而且获得工作许可证和公民身份的机会有限。在深入访谈的基础上，我们提供了一个难民视角的案例研究，将难民“标签”视为一个荒谬的、历史偶然的、神话讲述的过程，这有助于越来越多的研究采用自下而上的方法来理解难民保护。我们提出了一种难民解释的标签观点，发现难民将标签解释为一个不透明和不可预测的数字化过程，通过纸质文件进行管理，这些文件既是护身符，也是骗局。我们的研究提供了丰富的细节，说明难民如何通过幽默和嘲弄、历史性和发展替代形式的身份来颠覆和应对标签过程。我们试图利用这些访谈与难民合作，从难民的角度对标签的范式进行批判性的关注，并解决缺乏以难民对标签的解释为中心的实证研究。

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Refugee Survey Quarterly Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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2.40

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Refugee Survey Quarterly is published four times a year and serves as an authoritative source on current refugee and international protection issues. Each issue contains a selection of articles and documents on a specific theme, as well as book reviews on refugee-related literature. With this distinctive thematic approach, the journal crosses in each issue the entire range of refugee research on a particular key challenge to forced migration. The journal seeks to act as a link between scholars and practitioners by highlighting the evolving nature of refugee protection as reflected in the practice of UNHCR and other major actors in the field.