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Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. It examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, the difficulties they face during their journeys, the daily challenges and obstacles they experience, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called “refugee crisis.”
“Chapters in this collection discuss both the issues that host countries face, such as welfare nationalism and legal status, and challenges that refugees themselves face, such as wage theft and integration. The book also contains a very useful discussion of refugees from a Marxist perspective and an analysis of the history of refugees in Europe…The book has several chapters that will be especially useful to scholars in the field.” • Choice
“This is a well-crafted mix of broad considerations of the production of the refugee, as well as contextualized and detailed considerations of refugees in two especially important regions.” • Chaise LaDousa, Hamilton College, New York
“The book is an important contribution to an understanding of the current refugee crisis and its implications on the host countries.” • Ahmet Oncu, Sabanci University, Turkey
Erol Balkan teaches economic development, international finance and political economy of the Middle East at Hamilton College, New York. His recent books include Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul (Berghahn, 2009) and The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamic Capital in Turkey (Berghahn, 2015).
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Erol Balkan and Zümray Kutlu-Tonak
Part I: Different Perspectives on Migration: Migration and Neoliberalism
Chapter 1. Political Economy of Migration
Sungur Savran
Chapter 2. War, Migration and Class
Kemal Vural Tarlan
Chapter 3. Images as Border: On the Visual Production of the “Migration Crisis“
Mariam Durrani and Arjun Shankar
Part II: Host Country Economies and Attitudes
Chapter 4. Why Do Employment and Socio-economic Integration Have a Strained Relationship? The International Protection Context and Syrians in Turkey
Saime Özçürümez and Deniz Yıldırım
Chapter 5. Welfare Nationalism and Rising Prejudice Against Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe
Anıl Duman
Chapter 6. Vulnerable Permanency in Mass Influx: The Case of Syrians in Turkey
Ahmet İçduygu and Damla Aksel Bayraktar
Part III: Europe and Migration: Past and Present
Chapter 7. Legal Topography of the 2015 European Refugee “Crisis”
Everita Silina
Chapter 8. “The Preparation of Living Corpses”: Immigration Detention and the Production of the Non-Person
David Herd
Chapter 9. The Germans' “Refugee”: Concepts and Images of the “Refugee” in Germany’s Twisted History Between Acceptance and Denial as a Country of Immigration and Refuge
Marion Detjen
Part IV: Refugee Agency
Chapter 10. “Without it, you will die”: Smartphones and Refugees’ Digital Self-Organization
Sina Arnold and Stephan Gorland
Chapter 11. Processes of Wage Theft: Neoliberal Labor Market and Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Danièle Bélanger and Cenk Saraçoğlu
Chapter 12. The Narratives of Syrian Refugees on Taking Turkey as a Land of a Long or Temporary Settlement
Samer Sharani
Appendix: Statement From the Association of Bridging Peoples: It Is Not a Refugee Crisis, It Is a Secret War Against Refugees
Cem Terzi
Index