Papers by Nazli Senses
Migratory status influences men and women differently and there is a class position which interac... more Migratory status influences men and women differently and there is a class position which interacts with gender and migratory dynamics. Following that it becomes important to focus on the intersection of gender, migration and class dynamics. This chapter utilizes the term ‘precarity’ to understand how class dynamics (mainly understood as labor and associated life conditions) relate to gender and migratory status. Precarity is mainly used to refer to insecure labor conditions, which are not homogenous and emerge in various forms as depicted through a gendered understanding of precarity. This chapter thus seeks to answer two questions: (1) which distinct forms of precarity develop out of the intersection of gender and migration? and (2) what are the conceptual/theoretical implications of this intersection in understanding precarity and precariousness? In answering these questions, in particular the first one, the chapter draws on existing research on migrant women in Turkey.
Bu makalede, ozellikle 1980 sonrasi uluslararasi goc hareketliliklerine damgasini vuran duzensiz,... more Bu makalede, ozellikle 1980 sonrasi uluslararasi goc hareketliliklerine damgasini vuran duzensiz, ya da diger bir tabirle “kayitdisi”, gocun genel cercevesi cizilmistir. Bu goc turuyle isaret edilen goc edilen ulkenin ulkeye giris, o ulkede kalis (konaklama) ve/ya calismaya yonelik kurallarina uyulmamasidir. Yazida, duzensiz goc olgusu uc farkli duzeyde ele alinmistir: Ilk olarak kuresel ekonomik duzen icerisinde gelisen dinamiklerle duzensiz gocun iliskisine deginilmistir. Sonrasinda, devlet duzeyinden bir bakis acisiyla duzensiz gocun devlet icin ne anlama geldigi ve devletin bu goc turune yonelik gelistirdigi politikalar ele alinmistir. Son olarak, bireysel duzeyden bir bakis acisiyla duzensiz gocun gocmenin yasami icin ne gibi sonuclar ortaya cikardigi tartisilmistir.
Globalizations, 2018
This paper focuses on the global governance of migration and the problem of migrant representatio... more This paper focuses on the global governance of migration and the problem of migrant representation and migration-related problems within its framework. It concerns an analysis of the participation of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the summit of Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) which took place in Istanbul in 2015. The authors analyse the Turkish chair's presentation of migration-related problems and how this relates to the representation of migrants in Turkey by Turkish CSOs. Thus, the 2015 GFMD in Turkey is utilized as a case to reflect upon problems of representation. Furthermore, its democratizing potential as an informal, multi-sited framework for deliberations on new global migration governance avenues is recognized. Based on the participant observation, the authors maintain a critical stance concerning the inherent problems of the GFMD framework as a space for representing civil society in general and migrants and their organizations in particular.
Politics of Precarity, 2017
Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance, 2015
This research is a comparative politics study, focusing on the particular irregular immigration p... more This research is a comparative politics study, focusing on the particular irregular immigration policies and politics of three countries: Greece, Spain and Turkey. The research is concerned with the extent of the rights irregular immigrants can „enjoy‟ in the democratic states where they reside and work. The study questions if there is a divergence or convergence among Greece, Spain and Turkey in the way they treat irregular immigrants in relation to the recognition of these immigrants‟ fundamental human rights. The study also questions whether or not civil society participation and judicial review, as democratic accountability mechanisms, can also function as liberal constraints on the state in its regulation of irregular immigration and immigrants‟ rights.
Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey: Developing Gender-Sensitivity in Migration Research, Policy and Practice, 2020
The term precarity and associated theoretical and empirical discussions have proved to be rather ... more The term precarity and associated theoretical and empirical discussions have proved to be rather useful in analysing and understanding the current forms of migrant labour and life situations. Migrant workers are not only influenced from exploitative labour conditions of the neoliberal economic structures but also from nationalistic policies of immigration control. Thus, highlighting particularity of migrant labour among other labour forms provides empirically and theoretically significant explanations on precarity/precariousness that is understood broadly as insecure work (and also life) conditions. However, these explanations remain substantially incomplete unless the intersection of gender and migration is analysed. The goal of this chapter is to focus on how the intersection of gender and migratory dynamics generates distinct forms of precarity, and what are the conceptual/theoretical implications of this intersection for understanding precarity and precariousness. Specific focus...
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There is an increasing trend toward harmonization/convergence of laws and regulations on irregula... more There is an increasing trend toward harmonization/convergence of laws and regulations on irregular migration in the course of European integration on migration matters in the area of justice, freedom and security. Thus, Europeanization dictates certain types of policies in relation to the management of irregular migration to the EU member and candidate countries. These harmonized policies focus more on the better protection of external borders and on having an effective return policy. When it comes to the management of the irregular migrants who are already within the country, main approach offered at the EU level is identification, detention and then expulsion. Supranational policy making remains relatively silent towards the treatment of irregular migrants in relation to their fundamental human rights. As a result every member state has its particular policy on to what extent irregular migrants have a right to access certain social services such as public health care and education. Various international organizations, such as PICUM, ICMPD and FRA, have been doing research on that issue and depicting the extent to which European states offer social services to undocumented migrants who are already within the country. Following that research, this paper elaborates on possible explanations of such policy differences between European states with a special focus on Greece, Spain and Turkey, as they have more or less similar social and economic structures and migratory trajectories. By this way the paper also focuses on the categorization, recognition (or not), and treatment of irregular migrants in relation to their fundamental human rights in three different national settings.
Journal Articles by Nazli Senses
Globalizations , 2018
This paper focuses on the global governance of migration and the problem of migrant representatio... more This paper focuses on the global governance of migration and the problem of migrant representation and migration-related problems within its framework. It concerns an analysis of the participation of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the summit of Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) which took place in Istanbul in 2015. The authors analyse the Turkish chair’s presentation of migration-related problems and how this relates to the representation of migrants in Turkey by Turkish CSOs. Thus, the 2015 GFMD in Turkey is utilized as a case to reflect upon problems of representation. Furthermore, its democratizing potential as an informal, multi-sited framework for deliberations on new global migration governance avenues is recognized. Based on the participant observation, the authors maintain a critical stance concerning the inherent problems of the GFMD framework as a space for representing civil society in general and migrants and their organizations in particular.
Kapak Fotoğrafı: Hans Rudolf Uthoff, 1965, Almanya (TCDD-Almanya Treni) idealkent (Kent Araştırma... more Kapak Fotoğrafı: Hans Rudolf Uthoff, 1965, Almanya (TCDD-Almanya Treni) idealkent (Kent Araştırmaları Dergisi) tarafından indekslenmektedir.
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern …, Jan 1, 2011
... İçduygu, Irregular Migration in Turkey, International Organization for Migration, Geneva, 200... more ... İçduygu, Irregular Migration in Turkey, International Organization for Migration, Geneva, 2003; Ahmet İçduygu and Turgay Ünalan, 'Tides between ... For a discussion on how to study Europeanization and Turkey, see Thomas Diez, Apostolos Agnantopoulos and Alper Kaliber, ' ...
Teaching in Higher Education (2011) - SSCI
In Turkey, one of the major challenges that university education faces is the indifference of you... more In Turkey, one of the major challenges that university education faces is the indifference of young people towards social issues. The aim of this article is to contribute to the practice of critical pedagogy by proposing that showing movies is an important critical teaching method with the power both to give pleasure to the students and to develop their interest in crucial social issues. To support our argument, we showed three movies to students taking Sociology and Social Psychology courses in three successive academic terms on the topics ‘the death penalty’, ‘gender equality’ and ‘prejudice’. Analysing the essays which the students were asked to write on these movies, we observed growing interest and an increase in critical thinking on the issues in question. We then conducted a survey to test this change quantitatively. The results indicate that showing movies is very influential in helping students to develop an interest and critical perspective.
PhD Thesis by Nazli Senses
This research is a comparative politics study, focusing on the particular irregular immigration p... more This research is a comparative politics study, focusing on the particular irregular immigration policies and politics of three countries: Greece, Spain and Turkey. The research is concerned with the extent of the rights irregular immigrants can „enjoy‟ in the democratic states where they reside and work. The study questions if there is a divergence or convergence among Greece, Spain and Turkey in the way they treat irregular immigrants in relation to the recognition of these immigrants‟ fundamental human rights. The study also questions whether or not civil society participation and judicial review, as democratic accountability mechanisms, can also function as liberal constraints on the state in its regulation of irregular immigration and immigrants‟ rights.
Book Chapters by Nazli Senses
New Actors and Issues in the Post-Arab Uprisings Period, 2016
This chapter uses the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey to understand the practical and theoretic... more This chapter uses the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey to understand the practical and theoretical implications of categorizing mobility and migrants. Thus, it focuses on migration related categories in Turkey, the labels used to name Syrians in Turkey, and the resulting protection framework (i.e. the refugee regime) for Syrians given their life circumstances. In this way, the first section reflects on the relationships between the act of categorizing migrants, immigration policies, migrants’ life situations and rights-based claims. The second section then focuses on 21st century concepts used to categorize cross-border migrants. The third section describes Turkish setting through a brief migration history, the current international protection regime, migration related categories and the living conditions of Syrian refugees in Turkey. The fourth section critically engages with the relationships between migration categories, immigration policies and rights-based claims.
Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances, 2015
Books by Nazli Senses
This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to and from Turkey, using feminist... more This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to and from Turkey, using feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences of migrant women as refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented or documented migrants. The collection includes contributions from researchers, practitioners, and migrants themselves to present a nuanced analysis that challenges binary divisions between ‘forced’ and ‘voluntary’ migrants and highlights the political and social agency of refugee and migrant women in Turkey. Drawing on a rich body of original empirical and theoretical research the volume explores recent policy change in Turkey, the political and social influences that have shaped migration policy (both internally and globally), and how women migrants have been positioned within its changing refugee and migration regimes.
Analysis of the Turkish experience of redesigning migration policy in a country with weak civil protection against gender discrimination provides important lessons, in particular for countries in the Global South that are under pressure from the Global North to control and manage migrant flows. This interdisciplinary volume offers gender-sensitive recommendations for policymakers and practitioners and will advance global debates on migration management and governance across the fields of sociology, social policy, anthropology, labour economics and political science.
Content
Chapter One Introduction: Women, Migration and Asylum Seeking in Turkey (The Editors)
Part 1 - Gender and Migration in Turkey – Key Themes
Vignette 1: Zakira Hekmat: What We Need is the Empowerment of Refugee Women
Chapter Two: : Exploring “women” and “gender”: Trajectories of migration research in Turkey (Selmin Kaşka)
Chapter Three: Gender, Women and Precarity: Examples from Turkey (Nazlı Şenses)
Chapter Four: The Gendered Impacts of Migration and Welfare Regimes: Migrant Women Workers in Turkey (Gülay Toksöz)
Part 2 - Policy on Gendered Migration in Turkey
Vignettes 2-4: ‘Salma’: Looking for greener pastures in Turkey
Meltem Öztürk: Asking the right questions for a common political struggle and solidarity with migrant women.
Elvira Budaichieva and Eliza Shaeva: Kyrgyz women seek solutions to their problems on social media
Chapter Five: Gender in the Turkey’s Asylum Process (Emel Coşkun and Beril Eski)
Chapter Six: Welfare State Responses and Social Workers’ Attitudes towards Syrians in Turkey (Reyhan Atasü-Topçuoğlu)
Chapter Seven: ‘Institutional Blind Spots’ in Turkey’s Policy Against the Trafficking of Women (Emel Coşkun)
Part 3 – Gender Roles and Strategies in Syrian Migration
Vignette 5: ‘Rasha Najy’ – an Arabic interpreter.
Chapter Eight: Bitter Lives on Fertile Lands: Syrian Women’s Work and Labor in Turkish Agricultural Production (Saniye Dedeoğlu)
Chapter Nine: The Most Invisible of the Invisibles: Skilled Syrian Women in the Turkish Labor Market (Çağla Ünlütürk Ulutaş, Sezgi Akbaş)
Chapter Ten: Child Marriage: A Survival Strategy for Syrian Refugee Families in Turkey? (Melda Yaman)
Chapter Eleven: A Future Agenda: Policy and practice in gender, migration and research in Turkey
(Editors)
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Analysis of the Turkish experience of redesigning migration policy in a country with weak civil protection against gender discrimination provides important lessons, in particular for countries in the Global South that are under pressure from the Global North to control and manage migrant flows. This interdisciplinary volume offers gender-sensitive recommendations for policymakers and practitioners and will advance global debates on migration management and governance across the fields of sociology, social policy, anthropology, labour economics and political science.
Content
Chapter One Introduction: Women, Migration and Asylum Seeking in Turkey (The Editors)
Part 1 - Gender and Migration in Turkey – Key Themes
Vignette 1: Zakira Hekmat: What We Need is the Empowerment of Refugee Women
Chapter Two: : Exploring “women” and “gender”: Trajectories of migration research in Turkey (Selmin Kaşka)
Chapter Three: Gender, Women and Precarity: Examples from Turkey (Nazlı Şenses)
Chapter Four: The Gendered Impacts of Migration and Welfare Regimes: Migrant Women Workers in Turkey (Gülay Toksöz)
Part 2 - Policy on Gendered Migration in Turkey
Vignettes 2-4: ‘Salma’: Looking for greener pastures in Turkey
Meltem Öztürk: Asking the right questions for a common political struggle and solidarity with migrant women.
Elvira Budaichieva and Eliza Shaeva: Kyrgyz women seek solutions to their problems on social media
Chapter Five: Gender in the Turkey’s Asylum Process (Emel Coşkun and Beril Eski)
Chapter Six: Welfare State Responses and Social Workers’ Attitudes towards Syrians in Turkey (Reyhan Atasü-Topçuoğlu)
Chapter Seven: ‘Institutional Blind Spots’ in Turkey’s Policy Against the Trafficking of Women (Emel Coşkun)
Part 3 – Gender Roles and Strategies in Syrian Migration
Vignette 5: ‘Rasha Najy’ – an Arabic interpreter.
Chapter Eight: Bitter Lives on Fertile Lands: Syrian Women’s Work and Labor in Turkish Agricultural Production (Saniye Dedeoğlu)
Chapter Nine: The Most Invisible of the Invisibles: Skilled Syrian Women in the Turkish Labor Market (Çağla Ünlütürk Ulutaş, Sezgi Akbaş)
Chapter Ten: Child Marriage: A Survival Strategy for Syrian Refugee Families in Turkey? (Melda Yaman)
Chapter Eleven: A Future Agenda: Policy and practice in gender, migration and research in Turkey
(Editors)
Analysis of the Turkish experience of redesigning migration policy in a country with weak civil protection against gender discrimination provides important lessons, in particular for countries in the Global South that are under pressure from the Global North to control and manage migrant flows. This interdisciplinary volume offers gender-sensitive recommendations for policymakers and practitioners and will advance global debates on migration management and governance across the fields of sociology, social policy, anthropology, labour economics and political science.
Content
Chapter One Introduction: Women, Migration and Asylum Seeking in Turkey (The Editors)
Part 1 - Gender and Migration in Turkey – Key Themes
Vignette 1: Zakira Hekmat: What We Need is the Empowerment of Refugee Women
Chapter Two: : Exploring “women” and “gender”: Trajectories of migration research in Turkey (Selmin Kaşka)
Chapter Three: Gender, Women and Precarity: Examples from Turkey (Nazlı Şenses)
Chapter Four: The Gendered Impacts of Migration and Welfare Regimes: Migrant Women Workers in Turkey (Gülay Toksöz)
Part 2 - Policy on Gendered Migration in Turkey
Vignettes 2-4: ‘Salma’: Looking for greener pastures in Turkey
Meltem Öztürk: Asking the right questions for a common political struggle and solidarity with migrant women.
Elvira Budaichieva and Eliza Shaeva: Kyrgyz women seek solutions to their problems on social media
Chapter Five: Gender in the Turkey’s Asylum Process (Emel Coşkun and Beril Eski)
Chapter Six: Welfare State Responses and Social Workers’ Attitudes towards Syrians in Turkey (Reyhan Atasü-Topçuoğlu)
Chapter Seven: ‘Institutional Blind Spots’ in Turkey’s Policy Against the Trafficking of Women (Emel Coşkun)
Part 3 – Gender Roles and Strategies in Syrian Migration
Vignette 5: ‘Rasha Najy’ – an Arabic interpreter.
Chapter Eight: Bitter Lives on Fertile Lands: Syrian Women’s Work and Labor in Turkish Agricultural Production (Saniye Dedeoğlu)
Chapter Nine: The Most Invisible of the Invisibles: Skilled Syrian Women in the Turkish Labor Market (Çağla Ünlütürk Ulutaş, Sezgi Akbaş)
Chapter Ten: Child Marriage: A Survival Strategy for Syrian Refugee Families in Turkey? (Melda Yaman)
Chapter Eleven: A Future Agenda: Policy and practice in gender, migration and research in Turkey
(Editors)