CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Sevinin, Eda |
|---|---|
| Title | Vicissitudes Of Islamic Humanitarianism: Compassion, Care, And Immobilization |
| Summary | This thesis looks at intersections and conjunctions between the government of mobility and Islamic humanitarianism in Turkey. I argue that, although at times they operate not fully in tandem and at times in contradistinction to each other, both have immobilizing effects in refugee lives. In the face of increasing pressure on refugee movements, the attempts at decreasing the number of refugees who wanted to travel across nation-state borders are accompanied with other forms of immobilization which various sections of society (and not only the centralized nation-state) subscribed. I set out to discuss, in the broadest sense, how various modes of physical, social, economic, and political immobilization of refugees work. To that end, I propose to use immobilization as a lens through which to see how refugees’ life experiences are conditioned through legal, spatial, economic, political, and social relations which hinge on techniques of immobilizing (and arguably, differently mobilizing). I will zoom into a more localized form and limit my focus to Islamic humanitarianism in Denizli, a city at the southwest of Turkey, host to various refugee groups –predominantly Syrian, Afghan, and Iranian refugees and a considerably smaller population of Iraqi refugees. Throughout variously focused chapters I will demonstrate that Islamic humanitarianism is integral to the government of mobility and to the strategies of immobilization. These strategies include (but are by no means limited to) classification of refugees under ambiguous yet simultaneously individualizing and totalizing taxonomies; ideological political discourses; epistemic possibilities that act upon refugees without according to them a political position to express their claims and demands; and economic structures which narrow down migrants’ and refugees’ possibilities of reproduction and economic activity to precarious and informal jobs. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar |
| Department | International Relations PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/sevinin_eda.pdf |
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