Parla, Ayşe (2009) Remembering across the border: postsocialist nostalgia among Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria. American Ethnologist, 36 (4). pp. 750-767. ISSN 0094-0496 (Print) 1548-1425 (Online)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01208.x
Abstract
"Postsocialist nostalgia" among Turkish immigrant women from Bulgaria is not just strategic performance to negotiate the challenges that face working women in Turkey but is also cross-cultural analysis based on the migrants' experiences of distinct gender regimes on the two sides of the border. I explore why the competition between established residents and newcomers over scarce resources becomes, in this instance, the ground for negotiation over proper gender roles. I also suggest that the migrants' appeal to the communist legacy posits an alternative to either "normalizing" or "Orwellizing" communism and that it offers a more nuanced understanding of the norms and practices of gender and labor under communism, as experienced by this particular group of minority women.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Turkish migrants from Bulgaria; postsocialist nostalgia; gender; honor; Turkey |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > Cultural Studies |
| Depositing User: | Ayşe Parla |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2009 23:04 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2019 12:28 |
| URI: | https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/13492 |
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