Wednesday 25 November 12.00 CET
BSIS will host a webinar to launch this edited book published in early 2020.
Williams, Lucy; Coşkun, Emel and Kaşka, Selmin Editors (2020) Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey: Developing Gender-Sensitivity in Migration Research, Policy and Practice. Palgrave eBook ISBN 978-3-030-28887-7
First planned for April 2020, this launch will bring together, online, four of the contributors to discuss the book and their recent research.
Turkey is at the centre of current migration flows and currently hosts the world’s largest number of forced migrants. Migration is nothing new to Turkey which has long been at the centre of global migration with the Turkish population themselves migrating for work and political protection and creating significant diaspora populations around the world. The management of migration and migration control is now at the centre of Turkey’s governmental agenda and has dominated relations with the EU in recent years.
This book is unique in its focus on women as migrants and, drawing on their many years of research in migration, the contributors provide insight into women as economic as well as forced migrants. Chapters consider the importance of taking a gendered perspective on migration and emphasise how policy and practice can shape and often disadvantage migrant women living precariously in Turkey. The authors discuss the political and economic positioning and living conditions of women from Central Asian, African and other countries as well as women fleeing Syria who have been the most frequent subjects of recent research. The chapters feature both qualitative and quantitative research and include the testimony of women migrants themselves.
Palgrave has kindly offered a 20% discount to attendees.