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Compulsory Guesthood, Social Cohesion, and the Politics of Hospitality in Turkey

IFEA

Dr. Elif Babül

Séminaire Enjeux contemporains des migrations
Organisé conjointement par GAR et l'axe aMiMo de l'IFEA

Intervention en anglais

This talk explores hospitality as a key discursive framework for refugee management in Turkey by focusing on how the rhetoric of host-guest relations are operationalized at the official level to represent, interpret, and problematize the current state of affairs regarding the Syrian refugees, as well as to formulate policies for solving those problems. Host-guest metaphors are used to assert power and leverage both domestically and internationally by exerting sovereign control over a post-imperial nation-space, performing neo-imperial guardianship over the downtrodden (especially within the Muslim umma), and claiming an ethno-religious, civilizational morality that exceeds the legalistic logic of human rights and entitlements.