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By tracing the stories and emotions that emerge through the objects with which migrants associate, it examines human–object relations in the experiences of Syrian migrants in Turkey. It offers a deep ethnographic account of their social and cultural life, mapping the emotional landscape of displacement. It shows how these materials articulate cultural categories such as family, homeland, faith, and home. In doing so, it demonstrates how objects instilled with meaning shape migrants’ identities and sense of belonging in the new place.
“This is a thoughtful and sensitive discussion of displaced Syrians in Turkey, using the lens of material culture to tease out the human experience of migration. There are some very rich examples deployed across the text.” • Kathy Burrell, University of Liverpool
Selçuk Gündüz is an Assistant Professor at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University. In 2022, he earned a TÜBİTAK scholarship and carried out research as a visiting researcher at Queen's University Belfast. He conducts research grounded in ethnography on migration, material culture, gender and the Alevi belief system.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Objects Carrying the Scent of Homeland
Chapter 2. The Role of Objects on the Feeling of Home in Migrant Lives: The Case of Display Cabinets and Plants in Syrian Migrant Homes
Chapter 3. Religious Objects
Chapter 4. Contiuning Bonds: Object Mediations Following Separation and Death
Chapter 5. The Biographies of a Community Trust ‘Battalname’ and a Personal Belonging ‘Prayer Rug’: A Case Study of Ahmed's Story
Chapter 6. Photographs
Chapter 7. Digital Landscape and Sharing: ‘Do You Remember This?’
Conclusion
References
Index