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Syria’s Kurds have ended up at the heart of Middle Eastern geopolitics – here’s why [PDF]
, 2017 First paragraph: The Trump administration’s plans for the war against the so-called Islamic State (IS) are at last becoming clear.
Matin, Kamran +2 more
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, 2015 Comprising some thirty to forty million people, the Kurds constitute the fourth largest ethnicity in Western Asia. Divided between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, Kurdistan is located in the northern part of the Middle East.
Jongerden, Joost +5 more
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ქურთები სირიის არაბულ რესპუბლიკაში (Kurds in Syria)
, 2022 The article analyzes the stages of the historical and political development of the Kurds in Syria from the period of the French mandate to the present day.
Bukhuti Sitchinava (11598568)
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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
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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
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Political Islam, Kurds and the West
The Kurdish struggle for self-determination has endured a century of oppression, marked by military attacks, cultural suppression, and environmental devastation.
Said Shams
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The Kurds in Post-Saddam Iraq [PDF]
, 2008 The Kurdish-inhabited region of northern Iraq is relatively peaceful and prospering economically, but the Iraqi Kurds' political autonomy and political strength in post-Saddam Iraq is causing backlash in Arab Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. The Iraqi Kurds' ties
Katzman, Kenneth
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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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Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2018 This study explores how social inclusion and exclusion manifest as a dynamic continuum in the everyday lived realities of irregular migrants. Based on narratives of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers, who were eventually deported from Finland, the analysis ...
Sirpa Korhonen, Marko Siitonen
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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