Description
Syrians in Istanbul and Everyday Life and Space Book Description: According to Henri Lefebvre, everyday life offers an important opportunity to understand the social. Lefebvre says that it is impossible to comprehend daily life without retreating and experiencing it passively. Critical distance, objection and comparison must go together. Conducting her research with this perspective, Emine Yavaş Erdoğan focuses on the daily lives and spatialization of Syrian immigrants in Istanbul who had to leave their country, especially those residing in Fatih, Beyoğlu, Eyüp, Zeytinburnu and Başakşehir districts. In the book, Instead of a negative view such as marginalization and discrimination, which is often done when it comes to Syrians who are subjected to forced migration, which is emphasized to be the most severe type of migration, findings about daily life and spatialization are presented. Experiences about how Syrians in Istanbul establish relationships with each other and with the residents of the regions they live in. and narratives are analyzed with a solution-oriented approach.