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Publication Metadata only Astray and stranded at the gates of the European Union: African transit migrants in İstanbul(Cambridge Univ Press, 2011) Brewer, Kelly Todd; Department of Sociology; Yükseker, Hatice Deniz; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis paper discusses the consequences of EU migration control policies on irregular and transit migration in Turkey by focusing on African migrants. Our argument is that the EU's concern with transit migration through the Mediterranean and hence its externalization and securitization of migration control have contributed to Turkey's becoming a waiting room for irregular and transit migrants. Based on the findings of a survey with African migrants in İstanbul and analysis of secondary sources, we show that many African migrants get stranded in Turkey. In the absence of an institutional setup for migration management and the prevalence of a security approach, migrants are faced with humanitarian problems and human rights violations.Publication Metadata only Between Neo-Ottomanism and Ottomania: navigating state-led and popular cultural representations of the past(Cambridge Univ Press, 2017) Karakaya, Yağmur; Department of Sociology; Ergin, Murat; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 106427In contemporary Turkey, a growing interest in Ottoman history represents a change in both the official state discourse and popular culture. This nostalgia appropriates, reinterprets, decontextualizes, and juxtaposes formerly distinct symbols, ideas, objects, and histories in unprecedented ways. In this paper, we distinguish between state-led neo-Ottomanism and popular cultural Ottomania, focusing on the ways in which people in Turkey are interpellated by these two different yet interrelated discourses, depending on their social positions. As the boundary between highbrow and popular culture erodes, popular cultural representations come to reinterpret and rehabilitate the Ottoman past while also inventing new insecurities centering on historical truth. Utilizing in-depth interviews, we show that individuals juxtapose the popular television series Muhteem Yuzyl (The Magnificent Century) with what they deem proper history, in the process rendering popular culture a false version. We also identify four particular interpretive clusters among the consumers of Ottomania: for some, the Ottoman Empire was the epitome of tolerance, where different groups lived peacefully; for others, the imperial past represents Turkish and/or Islamic identities; and finally, critics see the empire as a burden on contemporary Turkey.Publication Open Access Bülent Batuman, new Islamist architecture and negotiating nation and Islam through built environment in Turkey. New York: Routledge, 2017.(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020) Cöbek, Gözde; Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Graduate School of Social Sciences and HumanitiesPublication Metadata only Disabled Istanbulites' everyday life experiences as 'urban citizens': accessibility and participation in decision-making(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018) Yardımcı, Sibel; Department of Sociology; Bezmez, Dikmen; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 101788This article assesses whether the everyday experiences of disabled İstanbulites can be considered from an urban citizenship perspective. To this end, Lefebvre's notion of the right to the city' and its relationship with the literature on urban citizenship and Disability Studies is discussed, and two broad categories of analysis are presented to elaborate the issue in the case of İstanbul. These are, namely accessibility - to space, but also to education, health, and employment - and participation in decision-making. Interviews show that the limited rights-based discourses, which guided the institutional transformation of the greater and district municipalities in the early 2000s, have had almost no impact on the everyday experience of disabled İstanbulites. İstanbul remains a largely disabling city with major problems of accessibility and no room in decision-making processes for disabled people. Unfortunately, current developments do not point to the possibility of a more powerful practice of urban citizenship.Publication Metadata only Editors' introduction: special issue on poverty and social exclusion in Turkey(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2008) Adaman, Fikret; Department of Sociology; Yükseker, Hatice Deniz; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Gendered jobs and occupational prestige in Turkey: women in the hierarchy elevator(Ewha Womans Univ Press, 2017) N/A; Department of Sociology; Mert, Aslı Ermiş; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; The Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (KOÇ-KAM); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 292273The success of women in traditionally male disciplines of higher education is not correspondingly reflected in their employment in high-prestige male-dominated jobs in Turkey and this paper seeks to understand the individual level factors that have influenced women's limited presence in these, particularly in relation to their household-and family-related responsibilities from the 1980s to the 2000s and with reference to current patterns. The term "hierarchy elevator" is introduced to describe and elaborate how horizontal gender segregation intersects with vertical gender segregation as both create disadvantages for women in the job market, considering that their representation is limited in traditionally male jobs and prestigious jobs. Using ordered logistic regressions, this paper demonstrates that being highly educated reinforces women's career trajectories in high-prestige male-dominated jobs in Turkey, while married women are largely excluded from these. Those who have one child compared to none are more likely to attain these jobs, while having two or more children impedes their labor market outcomes in these positions. This finding can be associated with the expanded financial resources of the few women who work in high-prestige male-dominated jobs for being able to afford childcare, and who may also prefer to have just one child each in order to maintain their status in these demanding jobs.Publication Open Access Governing ethnic unrest: political Islam and the Kurdish conflict in Turkey(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019) Günay, Onur; Department of Sociology; Yörük, Erdem; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 28982How can we explain the mass appeal and electoral success of Islamist political parties? What are the underlying sources of the Islamist political advantage? Scholars have provided numerous answers to these widely debated questions, variously emphasizing the religious nature of the discourses in Islamist movements, their ideological hegemony, organizational capacity, provision of social services, reputation, and structural factors. However, one key aspect of Islamist movements has been underexplored in the current literature; namely, Islamists' promises to resolve ethnic questions that remain unresolved in secularist nation-states. In this article, we argue that the extent to which Islamists govern ethnic unrest significantly shapes their electoral success and ability to establish broader hegemony. Based on ethnographic and sociological data, this article explores one particular recent electoral puzzle that reveals the limits of the scholarly literature on Islamist political advantage, examining the ethnic politics of the governing Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey.Publication Metadata only In memory of Bruce Howard Rankin (January 19, 1953-November 12, 2020)(Cambridge Univ Press, 2021) Department of Sociology; Ergin, Murat; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 106427N/APublication Metadata only In memory of Giovanni Arrighi(Homer Academic Publ House, 2009) Department of Sociology; Yükseker, Hatice Deniz; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Inequality in social capital: social capital, social risk and drop-out in the Turkish education system(Taylor & Francis, 2014) Department of Psychology; Department of Sociology; Cemalcılar, Zeynep; Gökşen, Fatoş; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Psychology; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 40374; 51292This article examines the effects of social capital on the likelihood of dropping out from the compulsory education system (Grades One through Eight) in Turkey. It focuses on the question of whether school-related social capital can provide the means to stay in school in the presence of risk factors such as socioeconomic status, race, or gender that cannot be easily modified. Despite major progress in enrollment rates due to policies enacted in recent years, the overall drop-out rate in compulsory education is close to 15% in Turkey. Data collected from 764 student-mother pairs show that drop-outs are exposed to higher number of social risk factors. We further illustrate that school-related social capital, as measured by quality of in-school teacher-student interactions as well as parental involvement in school, significantly and positively contributes to adolescents' likelihood of staying in school even in the presence of severe social inequalities.
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