Browsing by Author "Sivis, Selin"

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Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in Izmir
(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2023) Selin Sivis; Ayselin Yildiz; Sivis, Selin; Yildiz, Ayselin
This study focuses on the role of justification astrategies in the production and mobilization of multiple deservingness framings towards refugees in everyday work life. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Turkish employers in labour-intensive sectors in Izmir the article presents a city-centred evidence supported case which answers on the basis of which criteria Syrian refugee workers are deemed deserving and undeserving. It argues that the production of deservingness frames is not uniform and mutable across time and space thereby actors can engage in different justification strategies in similar situations since the constitution and mobilization of deservingness frames are context-dependent. This study further argues that Turkish employers' narratives towards Syrian refugee workers are shaped by not only economic interests but also unique features of historical and socio-cultural dynamics at the local level resulting in three distinct deservingness frames: established deservingness fragile deservingness and established undeservingness.
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Protracted displacement and housing systems in intermediary cities: the case of Syrians in Torbalı Türkiye
(Routledge, 2025) Dolf J.H. te Lintelo; Ayselin Gözde Yildiz; Meltem Ö. Gürel; Selin Siviş; Perin Çün; Sadaf Sultan Khan; Robert Mull; Khan, Sadaf; Cun, Perin; te Lintelo, Dolf J. H.; Sivis, Selin; Yildiz, Ayselin; Gurel, Meltem O.; Mull, Robert
This article investigates the dynamics of complex housing systems within the context of large-scale protracted displacement in Turkey/Türkiye. It presents new empirical findings from a qualitative study conducted in Torbalı a rapidly growing intermediate city with a significant population of Syrian displaced people. Drawing on theoretical and conceptual insights from housing studies urban studies and migration studies the article assesses the ways in which displacement materialises in place through housing and contributes to city-making and urbanisation processes informally incrementally and in locally and historically contingent manners. We argue that the forms and dynamics of emerging housing exhibit both continuity but most markedly significant disjuncture from past housing trajectories in Torbalı. This challenges the implicit assumption of legal uniformity of self-builders common in incremental housing debates and suggests that the notion of incremental housing has limited relevance in contexts of protracted urban displacement. Furthermore findings underline the significance of legal dimensions in energising housing informalities, in grading socio-legal statuses of resident populations, in bounding displaced people’s mobilities, in demarcating labour flows, in moulding rental markets, and in directing the flows of housing materials. These in turn shape current and future urban built environments and mould the ways in which the urbanisation of refuge manifests. © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.