CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Yetkin, Seyma |
|---|---|
| Title | Fast Fashion in the Peripheries of the City: Displaced Women's Labor in Istanbul's Garment Industry |
| Summary | This thesis sheds light on precarious lives of local Kurdish migrants and Syrian Kurdish refugees in a suburb in Istanbul (Kanarya) with a particular focus on female garment workers. By conducting an ethnographic fieldwork in the neighborhood, I situate a gender-focused analysis within the intertwined dynamics of migration and capitalism. The spatial analysis of Kanarya (as a source of cheap and disposable labor for fast fashion supply chains) indicates how politics of othering mediates neoliberal restructuring of the urban space. In the 1990s, when informal garment workshops were established by Kurdish families in the neighborhood, women participated to the labor force as an exception for the survival of the family. While the perception of exception remains, Kurdish women have filled the workshops since then, nowadays together with Syrian women. In this study, I analyze the social space of the workshops embedded in male-dominant relations and investigate the macro and micro dynamics that led to and maintain the feminization of the garment work in Kanarya and therefore super-exploitation of women labor. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Geva, Dorit |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/yetkin_seyma.pdf |
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