Dans le cadre du AMiMo working paper seminar 2016Jeudi 28 avril 2016 à 17h à l’IFEAHatice 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

Dans le cadre des conférences AMiMoMardi 5 avril 2016 à l’IFEA à 17hAdeline Braux (IFEA, Bakou) Relocation from Russia to Azerbaijan: adaptation experiences of young Russian-Azerbaijanis to their parents’ homeland Around 800,000 Azerbaijanis live in the Russian Federation, among them a significant number of young second-generation people. The collapse of the USSR gave rise to these first ‘hyphenated Russian-Azerbaijanis’, who find themselves between two cultural spaces but are generally embedded in the Russian environment they have always lived in. This article focuses on the way these young people cope with relocation to Azerbaijan. Based on new material gathered during extensive fieldwork in different regions of the country, the conference will explore the issues of adaptation from a practical point of