Birds without legs legal integration as potentiality for women of an Afghan Turkmen family in Istanbul.pdf (1.86 MB)
‘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 KhanThis 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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Central Asian SurveyISSN
0263-4937Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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1-20Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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- Sussex Asia Publications
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2022-06-07First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-08-17First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2022-06-06Usage metrics
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