Dans le cadre du AMiMo working paper seminar 2016
Jeudi 28 avril 2016 à 17h à l’IFEA
Hatice Pınar Şenoğuz (Université de Gaziantep)
Violence and conflict across the boundaries of ethnicity:
Clashes among migrant communities after Syrian migration in Gaziantep
This paper addresses the ways in which the forms of discrimination and marginalization develop contention among the migrant communities after the arrival of Syrians in the conflict-ridden outskirts of Gaziantep. The prolonged stay of the Syrians and their outnumbering in ghettoized areas, particularly around the poor neighborhoods, changed the demography of urban settlements and escalated tension among locals into sporadic and widespread violence against refugees. These conflicts crosscut former ethnic-religious clashes among the locals, especially surrounding the ‘Kurdish question’. In the outskirts of the border city Gaziantep, for instance, refugee homes have been attacked in the late summer of 2014, which has been followed by the violent clashes between Kurdish and Turkish locals after Kobane protests that took the Kurdish locals on the street upon the ISIS offensive on this small besieged Kurdish city in the northern Syria. Yet these clashes also lead to the establishment of new social bonds and citizenship practices among these communities.
uniquement sur invitation jusqu’au 22 avril 2016
en écrivant à l’adresse e-mail de l’AMiMo : amimo.ifea@gmail.com