Re-inhabiting Lives, Uncomfortable Histories: Armenian Women Immigrants in Turkey

The research I wish to pursue for my research in Turkey seeks to explore following questions: How are the subjectivities of undocumented Armenian women immigrants shaped in the face of multi-layered discrimination and exclusion? What is the role of Turkish media and Turkish cinema in this discrimination? My inquiry into the ways in
which undocumented Armenian women immigrants are rejected at an institutional level yet welcomed in the domestic work sector and the sex trade will illuminate how historical forces, such as the genocide, and social forces, such as attitudes of the Church and Turkish Armenians, shape gendered experience. For this purpose, I plan to
conduct a discourse analysis on how this issue is represented in Turkish media and Turkish cinema. Secondly I will investigate the legal arrangements regarding Armenian women immigrants, scrutinizing the latest arrangements regarding irregular migration in Turkey.

Faculty Supervisor:

Meir Amor

Student:

Partner:

Sabanci University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

Program: