Overview
- Based on 160 intereviews with diverse segments of Kurdish and Yezidi immigrants
- Explores how the integration processes Kurdish and Yezidi immigrants living in Europe experience
- Reveals how the politics of the immigrants' homeland influences their lives in their host countries
Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)
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About this book
Over a million Kurdish-Yezidi refugees are dispersed across European cities and towns. However, they are neither recognized as a distinct community of stateless immigrants nor as a distinct European ethnic or religious minority. They are frequently utilized as data sources without having a voice to address their challenges. This oral testimony project, moving beyond, but contributing to, conventional academic research, provides these communities with a space to tackle multiple questions in their own languages and with their own voices. The book seeks to answer what drives their departures from their home countries, how they escape, what shapes their lives in receiving cities, and finally, how homeland affairs influence their lives in new environments. By addressing all these themes, this book presents refugee-centric knowledge by and with refugees as objects and subjects of their narratives and transcends neoliberal humanitarian, state-centric, and colonial hegemonic epistemes thatlimit refugees' epistemic capabilities and viewpoints.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Veysi Dag is a research fellow of the Minerva Foundation at the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a research associate at SOAS, University of London. His research interests focus on studies of migration and diaspora, governance, social movements and transnationalism, comparative politics with a focus on refugee and migration policies in Europe, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, and regional policy analysis with a focus on Middle Eastern politics and the Kurdish-Turkish conflict.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Voices of the Disenfranchized
Book Subtitle: Knowledge Production by Kurdish-Yezidi Refugees from Below
Authors: Veysi Dag
Series Title: Mobility & Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46809-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46808-7Published: 13 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46811-7Due: 15 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46809-4Published: 12 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2731-3867
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3875
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 275
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Science and International Relations, general, Migration, Public Policy, Political Science