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‘Birds without legs’: legal integration as potentiality for women of a Turkmen-Afghan family in Istanbul

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posted on 2023-06-10, 03:48 authored by Diana Ibanez-TiradoDiana Ibanez-Tirado, Rabia Latif Khan
This article examines how three generations of women in an Afghan-Turkmen family residing in Istanbul have experienced historical migration and legal integration. We deploy the concept of potentiality to convey these women’s experiences of legal integration as a particular form of existence that is, at times, expressed by them and other families of Afghan background with the metaphor of being ‘birds without legs’. The metaphor conveys their constant mobility. Combining original ethnographic data with the analysis of historical works, we argue that families of Turkic ethnolinguistic background from Afghanistan residing in Turkey have been unable, and at times unwilling to realise refuge, citizenship and settlement as the endpoint of their mobile trajectories.

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Trust, Global Traders and Cheap Commodities in a Chinese International City (TRODITIES); G1723; EUROPEAN UNION; 669132

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  • Published

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Journal

Central Asian Survey

ISSN

0263-4937

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Taylor & Francis

Page range

1-20

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  • Anthropology Publications

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  • Sussex Asia Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2022-06-07

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2022-08-17

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2022-06-06

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