Lucy Williams - Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey: Developing Gender-Sensitivity in Migration Research, Policy and Practice

For over twenty years, the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series has contributed to cross-disciplinary empirical and theoretical debates on migration processes, serving as a critical forum for and problematising the main issues around the global movement and circulation of people. Grounded in both local and global accounts, the Series firstly focuses on theconceptualisation and dynamicsof complex contemporary national and transnational drivers behind movements and forced displacements. Secondly, it explores thenexus of migration, diversity and identity, incorporating considerations of intersectionality, super-diversity, social polarization and identification processes to examine migration through the various intersections of racialized identities, ethnicity, class, gender, age, disability and other oppressions. Thirdly, the Series critically engages theemerging challenges presented by reconfigured borders and boundaries: state politicization of migration, sovereignty, security, transborder regulations, human trade and ecology, and other imperatives that transgress geopolitical territorial borders to raise dilemmas about contemporary movements and social drivers.

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This edited book has been a collaborative work. The authors of the chapters conceived the project together and have shared and reviewed each others work. We are indebted to all the scholars of gender and migration who have gone before us whose work has influenced our own.

We would especially like to acknowledge the support of Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES) Turkey who supported the project by bringing us all together to meet and discuss the book in Istanbul in May 2018.

All the authors have relied on the willingness of migrant women in Turkey to meet with us, talk with us and share important insights into their experience of the living in Turkey in often very difficult circumstances. We are particularly grateful to the women who have bravely shared their experiences in the vignettes included in this book.

We dedicate this book to all the participants in the research reported in this book and hope that our research can promote positive change to policy and practice and to the lives of migrant women in Turkey and beyond.