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Migrant Smuggling to Europe: A Two‐Sector Model With Directed Search

Review of International Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last decade, combating migrant smuggling has emerged as a top priority for the European Union (EU). An idiosyncratic feature of this market is its dual supply‐side organization, comprising a small number of criminal cartels and a large mass of self‐employed smugglers.
Claire Naiditch, Radu Vranceanu
wiley   +1 more source

The Turkish Military Operation in Iraqi Kurdistan 4 March 1987 A Historical Study

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
Turkish policy towards the Kurdish national movement in Iraqi Kurdistan is one of the key subjects of the Kurdish national liberation movement, As the Kurdish national liberation movement in Iraq has influence on the Kurdish movement in other Kurdistan ...
Piroz Abdullah Bashar , Hoger Taher Tawfiq   +1 more
doaj  

Decolonial Entangled Ethnographic Research: Transformative Collaborations With the UK Alevi Community Over the Last 15 Years

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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

Elements of Kurdish Tales and Its Similarities/Differences with Modern Stories

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2016
Classical and Modern Kurdish fiction has its own elements each. This paper is an attempt to explain the important movement from classical narratives to modern story-writing in the light of recent narrative theories.
Mohammad Rahimian
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Democratic Confederalism and the Theory of History: Historical Ontologies of Political Alternative in Bookchin, Öcalan, and Graeber

Partecipazione e Conflitto
This paper aims to discuss the "historical ontology of political alternative" emerging from the work of Abdullah Öcalan by comparing it to the ones of two other authors: Murray Bookchin, who has notoriously influenced his thought, and David Graeber ...
Bernardo Paci
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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

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

The ambiguities of democratic autonomy: the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Rojava [PDF]

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2016
This paper traces the ideology of democratic autonomy, as developed by PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan from the libertarian and anarchist writings of Murray Bookchin, as an alternative to the authoritarian and centralist nation state, not only in the Kurdish-inhabited provinces, but in Turkey at large.
openaire   +3 more sources

Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
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