Hatice Pınar Şenoğuz – Violence and conflict across the boundaries of ethnicity: Clashes among migrant communities after Syrian migration in Gaziantep 28/4/2016
AMiMo 2016 Working Papers semineri çerçevesinde28 Nisan 2016 Perşembe günü saat 17.00’de IFEA’daHatice Pınar Şenoğuz (Gaziantep Üniversitesi) 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