Yerli Halkın Bakışından Suriyeli Kadın Sığınmacılar: Mardin’de Yabancının Ötekileştirilmesi ve Ahlaki Dışlama

Abstract

Due to the ongoing conflicts in Syria over the last nine years, millions of people have left their homes and took refuge in neighboring and non-neighboring countries. Turkey ranks first among the countries hosting Syrian asylum seekers. Depending on the specific social conditions of the cities where asylum seekers live intensively, the difficulties that asylum seekers may face differ. Undoubtedly, it can be stated that women face much greater problems than men during the escape from war or the migration process and in the country of asylum. In the study, it was aimed to examine Syrian women whether they were exposed to othering, discriminatory discourses and behaviors due to being women only during the interactions in daily life, based on the discourses of the local people. In this context, Mardin province, which is one of the settlements in the border region where the daily encounters and interactions between Syrian asylum seekers and local people is high, was selected as the research area. In the research, indepth interview technique was used in the context of qualitative method. In this direction, in-depth interviews were conducted with 36 local people living in Mardin's city centre and Kızıltepe district. According to the findings, Syrian female asylum seekers may be exposed to discrimination and exclusion due to some gender-based prejudices and stigmatization, mostly through gossip and rumors. In fact, some prejudices, negative images and stigmas, which have become widespread in society, lead Syrian women to be subjected to moral exclusion as another form of exclusion, which may at times be harsher than discrimination and social exclusion.

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