The changing image of the Kurds in Turkish cities: middle-class perceptions of Kurdish migrants in İzmir
The changing image of the Kurds in Turkish cities: middle-class perceptions of Kurdish migrants in İzmir
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土耳其城市中库尔德人形象的变化：伊兹密尔中产阶级对库尔德移民的看法
作者：
Cenk Saraçoğlu
Saraçoğlu处理生活在土耳其西部城市的库尔德移民在中产阶级话语中被某些轻蔑的标签和刻板印象所识别的方式。他认为，这种新的库尔德人形象表明了土耳其长期以来的反移民情绪的民族化。他通过2006年6月至2007年7月在İzmir进行的实地研究中收集的定性数据，发展并证实了这一论点。这项研究对居住在该市的中产阶级进行了90次深度访谈，并探讨了他们对库尔德人的态度。通过仔细分析这些受访者在采访中提出的两种常见刻板印象，即库尔德人是“福利乞丐”，他们“破坏城市生活”，Saraçoğlu探索了这种观念出现的城市社会背景的形成。对中产阶级受访者的叙述的仔细研究表明，库尔德人新形象的发展发生在土耳其城市新自由主义转型和库尔德移民内部流离失所所塑造的城市背景下。
ABSTRACT Saraçoğlu deals with the ways in which the Kurdish migrants living in the western cities of Turkey have been identified in middle-class discourse by certain pejorative labels and stereotypes. He argues that this new Kurdish image demonstrates the ethnicization of longstanding anti-migrant sentiments in Turkey. He develops and substantiates the argument by means of qualitative data gathered in a field study in İzmir between June 2006 and July 2007. The study involved ninety in-depth interviews with middle-class individuals living in the city and explored their anti-Kurdish attitudes. Through a close analysis of two of the common stereotypes that these interviewees deployed in the interviews—namely, that the Kurds were ‘benefit scroungers’ and that they ‘disrupt urban life’— Saraçoğlu explores the formation of the urban social context in which such perceptions have emerged. Close examination of the narratives of the middle-class respondents indicates that the development of a new image of the Kurds has occurred in an urban context shaped by the neoliberal transformation of Turkish cities, on the one hand, and the internal displacement of Kurdish migrants, on the other.