Migrant Women Negotiating Difference, Borders and Work: Turkish, Kurdish Women in Hackney, 1980 to 2018

移民妇女谈判差异、边界和工作：哈克尼的土耳其、库尔德妇女，1980 年至 2018 年

• 批准号: 2300911
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Roehampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2300911
• 关键词: Migrant; Women; Negotiating; Difference; Borders

This research examines the economic, social and political contributions of Turkish and Kurdish (T/K) womenin the London borough of Hackney, through an analysis of their subjective experiences and the changingsocial and geo-political terrain of the borough since 1980. Using a combination of oral history, photographyelicitation and archival sources, the study focuses on T/K women's everyday life practices and asks severalrelated questions: What personal resources did these women bring from Turkey? What did the geographicspace of Hackney offer them? How were their subjectivities shaped through the collision of culture, spaceand place? How did these women shape the geographical space they went on to inhabit? The thesis willmake an important contribution to existing debates and also fill a gap in the contemporary cultural studiesresearch on work, gender, migration and gentrification in London through its focus on a hitherto unstudiedgroup.The study's timeframe - 1980-2018 - marks both an expansion of the T/K communities in Hackney and aperiod of rapid socio-economic change in the borough. Based on my knowledge of these communities andmy preliminary research, I have divided this period into three: 1. Arrival of T/K women in the UK and theirinitial employment in textile factories (1980-1994); 2. The closure of textile factories and opening of smallfamily-run businesses and the beginning of extensive regeneration programmes (1995-2004); 3. Re-shapingand re-defining gendered and ethnic geographical and social boundaries as Hackney becomes increasinglygentrified (2005 onwards).The research is located within a theoretical framework of cultural and migration studies and feminist andintersectional approaches. It places migrant women's experiences in the centre of the study to producenew knowledge about identity, politics of difference and displacement. This knowledge can be used bywide-ranging stakeholders and will contribute to production of representational knowledge.

本研究通过分析伦敦哈克尼自治市的土耳其和库尔德妇女的主观经历以及自1980年以来该市不断变化的社会和地缘政治地形，探讨了她们在经济、社会和政治方面的贡献。本研究结合口述历史、历史文献和档案资料，重点关注T/K妇女的日常生活实践，并提出几个相关问题：这些妇女从土耳其带来了什么样的个人资源？哈克尼的地理空间为他们提供了什么？他们的主体性是如何在文化、空间和场所的碰撞中形成的？这些女性是如何塑造她们后来居住的地理空间的？本论文将对现有的争论做出重要贡献，并通过关注一个迄今为止尚未被研究的群体，填补了当代文化研究中关于伦敦工作、性别、移民和绅士化研究的空白。该研究的时间框架-- 1980-2018 --标志着哈克尼T/K社区的扩张和该自治市快速的社会经济变革时期。根据我对这些社区的了解和我的初步研究，我将这一时期分为三个阶段：1。T/K妇女抵达英国及其在纺织厂的最初就业（1980-1994）; 2.关闭纺织厂，开办家庭经营的小企业，并开始实施广泛的复兴方案（1995-2004年）; 3.随着哈克尼的日益绅士化，重新塑造和重新定义性别和种族的地理和社会界限（2005年起）。它将移民妇女的经历置于研究的中心，以产生关于身份、差异政治和流离失所的新知识。这些知识可以被广泛的利益相关者使用，并将有助于产生代表性知识。