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B. Balcı & T. Liles, « Turkey’s Comeback to Central Asia »

B. Balcı & T. Liles, « Turkey’s Comeback to Central Asia », Insight Turkey, 20(4) 2018, p. 11-26. Lien As regularly noted in academic sources and regional analyses, Turkey is situated at the crossroads of several regions that were historically dominated or targeted by Ottoman rulers. Regardless of what the leadership of post-Ottoman Turkey may have intended, the country has always been sensitive to political developments in the Middle East, the Balkans, the wider Black Sea region and the Mediterranean. Although never part of the Ottoman Empire, post-Soviet Central Asia has garnered equally strong interest among Turkish policymakers, not least because of ethnic, linguistic, and religious commonalities. Yet, Central Asia’s position in Turkish foreign policy has received comparatively scant analytical attention in

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D. Pelek “Syrian Refugees as Seasonal Migrant Workers: Re-Construction of Unequal Power Relations in Turkish Agriculture »

Deniz Pelek “Syrian Refugees as Seasonal Migrant Workers: Re-Construction of Unequal Power Relations in Turkish Agriculture », Journal of Refugee Studies, published: 16 October 2018, DOI: 10.1093/jrs/fey050 This article examines the case of Syrian refugees as seasonal migrant workers in Turkey and critically discusses the working and living conditions fostering their relative vulnerability compared to other workers. Syrian refugees are subject to discriminatory practices in terms of lower wages, longer working hours and improper sheltering conditions. This article explores how unequal power relations between ethnically different groups of workers in the agricultural sector are (re)constructed and the consequences of the emergence of Syrian refugees as a novel class. The essential aim of this study is to unravel the process and practice

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AKSAZ Elif, « Les sciences sociales nationales et le « transnationalisme des migrants ». Continuité et rupture dans les approches suivies en France et en Turquie pour étudier l’émigration turque vers l’Europe »

AKSAZ Elif, « Les sciences sociales nationales et le « transnationalisme des migrants ». Continuité et rupture dans les approches suivies en France et en Turquie pour étudier l’émigration turque vers l’Europe », Anatoli, De l’Adriatique à la Caspienne. Territoires, politique, sociétés, n° 9, « Migrants et réfugiés en Turquie, dans leur contexte historique, politique et social », sous la direction de Elif AKSAZ et Catherine WIHTOL de WENDEN, pp. 155-168.

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Bayram Balcı, Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union

Bayram Balcı, Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union, Londres, Hurst, 2018. https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/islam-central-asia-caucasus-since-fall-soviet-union/ With the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, a major turning point in all former Soviet republics, Central Asian and Caucasian countries began to reflect on their history and identities. As a consequence of their opening up to the global exchange of ideas, various strains of Islam and trends in Islamic thought have nourished the Islamic revival that had already started in the context of glasnost and perestroika—from Turkey, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, and from the Indian subcontinent; the four regions with strong ties to Central Asian and Caucasian Islam in the years before Soviet occupation. Bayram Balci seeks

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