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{"title":"Exploring the Significance of Diasporic Objects in Sudanese-Turkish Dual-Heritage Households: Insights from the African Diaspora in Turkey","authors":"Asma HEDİ NAİRİ, Latife Reyhan Başer","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2023.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2023.0053","url":null,"abstract":"The study of diasporic objects has emerged as a sub-concept of material culture studies, reflecting the interconnection of mobility and materiality, and the importance of objects in relation to the experiences of migrants and diaspora communities. In this article, we explore the importance of diasporic objects within the Sudanese diaspora in Turkey, focusing on the significance of these objects in households of dual heritage. Using thematic discourse analysis, we identify three main categories of diasporic objects, including food and kitchen objects, biographic objects, and socio-cultural objects. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, we examine the potential functions and significance of these objects, as well as the broader social and cultural practices that surround them. Our findings suggest that diasporic objects can serve as powerful symbols of cultural identity and personal history, providing a sense of continuity and connection for individuals in the diaspora. Moreover, these objects can offer a source of comfort and support, acting as emotional companions that help individuals to maintain a sense of belonging and identity during the challenging experiences of migration and displacement.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134271055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DİL, EĞİTİM VE DİN POLİTİKALARI ÇERÇEVESİNDE RUSYA’DA ÇOKKÜLTÜRCÜLÜK","authors":"Suat Beylur","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2023.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2023.0057","url":null,"abstract":"Tarih boyunca büyük göçler ve insani hareketliliğin yaşandığı bir bölgede bulunan Rusya, çok sayıda etnik ve kültürel topluluğun yaşadığı federal bir devlettir. Çarlık Rusyası’nın yayılmacı politikaları ve onun mirasçısı Sovyetler Birliği döneminde uygulanan sürgün ve yeniden iskân politikaları, bugünkü Rusya Federasyonu’nu her açıdan daha da kozmopolit bir hale getirmiştir. Resmi rakamlara göre Rusya Federasyonu, 100 civarında farklı dilin konuşulduğu 193 farklı etnik gruba ev sahipliği yapmaktadır. Bu yönüyle Rusya Federasyonu, kültürel çeşitlilik açısından dünyadaki eşsiz ülkelerin başında gelmektedir. Bu çalışma, dil, eğitim ve dini alana yönelik yasal çerçeve, kurumlar ve uygulamalar bağlamında Rusya’nın çokkültürcü politikalarını tarihsel tecrübe ışığında incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Esas itibariyle literatür çalışması, ilgili mevzuat ve uluslararası örgütlerin raporlarından yararlanılan çalışmada, Rusya’daki çokkültürcü politikaların, 1990’lardan günümüze nispeten daha liberal bir başlangıçtan güvenlik odaklı ve merkeziyetçi bir yaklaşıma kaydığı bulgusuna ulaşılmıştır.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125560322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SECURITIZATION OF TURKISH NATIONALIST NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN GERMANY","authors":"Ferzan Çakir","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2023.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2023.0054","url":null,"abstract":"With the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cold War officially ended. Through the bipolar world order terminated, the concept of security changed its shape and gained a new meaning for the Western world. The change in the security discourse has led to come to the fore of the concepts of securitization and securitization of migration. According to the securitization theorem, a security threat cannot be defined solely as a potential threat outside the country's borders. Security has begun to be transformed into a structure in which individuals are subjected to surveillance and control mechanisms, with a discourse in which internal and external security are intertwined and the borders of international security and internal security are blurred. It has evolved into a mechanism where bureaucrats, politicians and security experts consciously define immigration as a threat, securitize immigration and thus gain control over society. Although migration is seen as a part of globalization and a borderless world, the securitization of migration discourse leads to the perception of migration as a threat. Especially within the framework of securitization of migration, the diasporas, which are groups that gather around a particular belief, nation or ethnicity in another country, diasporas in the context of securitization, has been one of the topics discussed in recent years. \u0000Thus the Turkish nationalist non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Germany have also become an issue that started discussions on the axis of securitization. The non-governmental organizations (NGOs) adopting Turkish nationalism in Germany and the process of becoming a security concern in Germany are discussed in this study. \u0000In Austria, on March 1, 2019, with the prohibition of nationalist symbols called the Gray Wolf salute, organizations affiliated with Turkish nationalism became a security concern for France and Germany. The issue was brought to the European Parliament and became a security element among European Union member states. It has been stated that the NGOs, defined as “Grey Wolves”, are in extreme right-wing activism, anti-Semitist and pose a potential threat against Armenian, Kurdish and Greek minorities stated by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) reports. The proposal of the coalition government and opposition parties on the restriction of these NGOs in the German Bundestag was also discussed. Moreover the European Parliament 2019-2020 Turkey report considered possible restrictions on NGOs adopting Turkish nationalism in the European Union member states. \u0000On the other hand, NGOs adopting Turkish nationalism continue to state that the mentioned organizations do not have a racist structure. They argue that they are a structure parallel to the democratic atmosphere of Germany. In this study, the perception considering legal NGOs becoming a security threat is examined considering the Turkish Nationalist NGOs","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130047866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Turkish nation as a bridge. Imagining a nation in Turkish parliamentary discourses","authors":"Erdoğan Aykaç","doi":"10.52241/tjds.1245750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.1245750","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses Turkish parliamentary discourses towards Turkish communities living outside of Turkey from 1988 to 2016. It focuses particularly on the usage of the bridge metaphor in discursive strategies towards these communities; concentrated mainly in former Ottoman territories and parts of Eurasia. The article argues that Turkish parliamentarians used the bridge metaphor to frame Turkish communities as part of both the Turkish nation and the nation they lived in, thereby constituting their liminal and in-between identity. Parliamentarians continuously (re-)imagined, (re-)constructed, and (re-)produced the Turkish nation by using different discursive strategies that included uniqueness, sameness or difference. They used identity markers as ethnicity, language, geography, history, and religion to address these strategies. Metaphorically framing Turkish communities as a bridge provided them with a dominant bridge role, namely that of friendship and peace. By transforming Turkish communities into a bridge of friendship and peace, through different dimensions, they believed that they would have a positive and crucial role for the country they lived in and for Turkey. This bridge role provided opportunities as well as limits; illustrating the interplay between discourses and foreign policy developments.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121655289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AB GÖÇ YÖNETİMİ VE DIŞSALLAŞTIRMA: TÜRKİYE-AB İŞBİRLİGİ ÖRNEĞİ","authors":"Ebubekir Tavaci","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2023.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2023.0056","url":null,"abstract":"Avrupa Birliği ülkeleri son yüzyılın en önemli göç destinasyonlarından birini oluşturmaktadır. Göçe dair meseleler eskiden devletlerin kendi egemenlik alanında iken AB projesinin gelişimi ile bu alanlarda Birliğin ulus-üstü organlarının yetkileri artmıştır. Yani AB göç politikalarında uzun bir sure hükümetler arasıcı bir yaklaşım tercih edilirken zamanla kısmi bir ortaklaşma olmuştur. AB özellikle son otuz yıldır göçü dışsallaştırarak yönetmeyi tercih etmektedir. Özellikle de Suriye İç Savaşının neden olduğu göç krizinin bir sonucu olarak Türkiye ile iş birliği yapmak AB’nin göç politikalarının dışsallaştırılmasında önemli bir yere sahip olmuştur. Bu çerçevede, 2015 yılındaki göç krizi sırasında Avrupa'ya göç akışını önlemek için iki tarafın üzerinde anlaşmaya vardığı 18 Mart 2016 tarihli AB-Türkiye Göç Mutabakatı bir başarı olarak sunulmuştur. Ancak bu açıklamanın yasal niteliği ve çeşitli yönleri birçok tartışmaya yol açmıştır. İnformel yöntemler kullanılarak gerçekleştirilen bu iş birliği AB göç politikalarının dışsallaştırılması açısından önemli bir örnek niteliğindedir.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114874194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effects of Granting the Right of External Voting to the Diaspora Policies of AKP and CHP","authors":"Süleyman Furkan Çobankara","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2023.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2023.0052","url":null,"abstract":"By granting the right to vote in general elections in 2014 for the Turkish diaspora, diaspora policies of political parties in Turkey have gained crucial importance, especially considering the rate of abroad votes form five percent of the total votes. In this study, I will try to answer the question of how the granting of the right to vote affected the main parties’ (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP and Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi - CHP ) diaspora policies. First of all, I start by introducing the Turkish diaspora. Followingly this, I will mention the history of the Turkish diaspora’s right of external vote. Thirdly, I will analyze the parties' election manifestos which they publish their manifestos before the elections in the general elections of 2011, 2015, and 2018. The reason behind selecting these specific elections is to reveal the alteration of these two main parties' diaspora policies since these elections are the last election before the granting of the external vote and the first two general elections afterward. Within the scope of this literature review and document analysis, the issue is analyzed in two perspectives within the framework of the concepts of external voting, election district, foreign policy, diaspora institution, culture and integration, political participation, and education.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126037585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Problem of Religious Diversity: European Challenges and Asian Approaches; Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood (eds)","authors":"Karamo Faruk Konneh","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2023.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2023.0058","url":null,"abstract":"The Problem of Religious Diversity: European Challenges and Asian Approaches; Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood (eds)","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126259444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Understanding of Democracy as a Measure of Integration? - An examination on the change in integration discourses around the democracy debate based on the case of the Turkish Diaspora in Germany.","authors":"Seçkin Söylemez","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2023.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2023.0051","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the intensified debate about people of Turkish origin in Germany in the context of speculations about deviating understandings of democracy among the Turkish diaspora in Germany. Based on the thesis that a change in the German integration discourse from measurable material achievements of the migrant community to immaterial aspects of adaptation with regard to norms and values is taking place, an argument for a discourse-theoretical perception of this debate is developed, whereby existing forms of the negatively connoted foreign construction of the community of Turkish origin are discussed.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"55 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114021659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan.","authors":"Ali Ahmad Safi","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2023.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2023.0059","url":null,"abstract":"“For many Afghans the cities of Pakistan are home” (150). \u0000Sanaa Alimia offers valuable insights into the microhistory of Afghan migration to urban Pakistan since the 1970s. She explores urban identities that are less concerned with nationality, ethnicity, and “imagined communities” than with Insani Haquq (basic human rights). The book explores how Pakistan’s changing geopolitics affected Afghans’ livelihoods and their sense of identity and belonging during four decades of violence in Afghanistan through oral histories of Afghan migrants in Karachi and Peshawar, two of Pakistan’s main cities. Alimia adopts the term “informal sphere” to characterize the situation of Afghan refugees and Pakistan State’s management of its citizens and noncitizens with regard to access to rights, resources, and social welfare, but with which they are unable or unwilling to actively deal. Refugees' reliance on the informal sphere is a crucial aspect of daily living. The informality refers to “the production of legal goods and services that are not formally provided, protected and regulated by the state (2).”","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129104414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"(Re)integration Problems Faced by First Generation Turkish Labor Immigrants Who Returned from Germany","authors":"Haydar Haluk Ceylan","doi":"10.52241/tjds.2022.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0046","url":null,"abstract":"With the labor agreement signed between Germany and Turkey in 1961, migration from Turkey to Germany increased drastically. As a result, Turkish society extending to the fifth generation exists today in Germany. Most of those who immigrated during this period, went for a short time to earn money. However, in the historical process most of the firstgeneration immigrants lived in Germany for many years. Although the majority of first-generation immigrants return to their homeland within the scope of their retirement plans, the cyclical changes in Germany and the laws to encourage return also had a catalytic effect on their return. Some of the first-generation immigrants’ socialization in their early youth took place in Turkey, and some in Germany. Immigrants returning to Turkey after living in Germany for many years have problems in many areas, from social life to access to public services and bureaucracy. In addition to these problems, their imagination of the homeland carries traces of their homeland perceptions from years ago. The inconsistency of the idea of homeland in the mind with the reality in the homeland after their return also creates some re-integration problems.","PeriodicalId":101684,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120985404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}