CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2026
| Author | Yilmaz, Muhammed |
|---|---|
| Title | How Ethnic Minorities Perceive and Respond to Newcomers: A Study of Kurds and Syrians an Aydin, Turkey |
| Summary | This study investigates how Kurds; a native ethnic minority with a distinctive history of migration and stigmatization, perceive and evaluate Syrian newcomers who have recently settled in long-established Kurdish migrant neighborhoods in Aydın. Drawing on Jenkins’s theory of social identity, boundary literature, and insights from social psychology on intergroup relations, the study adopts a constructionist perspective to reveal how the boundaries of Kurdishness are produced and negotiated. Based on fieldwork and in-depth interviews, it examines the perceived similarities and differences shaping inclusive and exclusive attitudes. The findings show that identifications intersect and emerge as moral articulations, challenging explanations that reduce anti-immigrant attitudes solely to national or taken-for-granted ethnic identities, and demonstrating how these processes are shaped within a specific micro-context |
| Supervisor | Stewart, Michael |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2026/yilmaz_muhammed.pdf |
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