Results 21 to 30 of about 413 (124)
The Feminization of Pro-Kurdish Party Politics in Turkey: The Role of Women Activists [PDF]
, 2013 This study offers a case study of women’s political participation and representation in pro-Kurdish politics in Turkey since 1990s. Kurdish women have been double oppressed in Turkey due to both their ethnic identity and gender identity.
Tasdemir, Salima
core +2 more sources
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Türkiye has experienced a notable increase in juvenile delinquency in recent years, raising serious concerns about child welfare and juvenile justice systems. This qualitative study examines the socio‐economic and structural dimensions of recidivism based on the field experiences of 20 social workers working with children drawn into crime ...
Hüseyin Batman +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Arts, struggle and transformation from female militants to Kurdish women [PDF]
, 2019 I wanted to evaluate the women?s rights movements through the lives and struggles of two important Kurdish women of social worth who lived in the 21st century to answer the question of whether women could really exist in new battlegrounds apart from ...
Dakman, Seval Araç
core +1 more source
A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
wiley +1 more source
The Kurdish Women's Organizing from the Feminist Neo-Institutionalist Perspective [PDF]
, 2019 International audienceIn March 2014, the “democratizing package” in Turkey allowed political parties to be chaired jointly by a man and a woman. This legislative measure came about after being de facto practiced for nine years by the pro-Kurdish parties.
Drechselova, Lucie
core +2 more sources
Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives Exploring how Turkish‐speaking immigrants understand and express common mental health conditions is crucial, as discrepancies in this area have real‐life consequences for treatment. Some key concepts to examine within this are the long‐standing belief that Turkish‐speaking immigrants somatise emotional difficulties and cannot ...
Ayse Akan +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
wiley +1 more source
Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
wiley +1 more source
The Kurdistan Women's Liberation : Movement Between Violence and Resistance [PDF]
, 2019 The Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Movement (KWLM) has women at the forefrontof its many struggles across the Kurdish Middle East. Amidst ongoing wars andinsecurities female fighters, politicians and activists are trying to build a new systembased on ...
Kӓser, Isabel
core +1 more source
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing ...
Hamid Akbary +2 more
wiley +1 more source