Publisher: Transnational Press London

Women’s Voices from Kurdistan - A Selection of Kurdish Poetry

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Against the backdrop of war and violence, social-political as well as lingual repressions, and the challenges presented by a patriarchal society, Kurdish poetesses have been creating meaningful work throughout the centuries. This collection of translated poems brings to light some of these underrepresented female writers, whose work has been essential to the development of Kurdish poetry. Representing various Kurdish regions and dialects, this volume of selected poems touches upon themes such as sexuality, violence, gender domination, intimacy, fantasy, and romantic love. While this collection offers illuminating insights into the work of Kurdish poetesses, it is the hope of its creators, the Exeter Kurdish Translation Initiative, that it inspires further translations and publication of Kurdish literature.

Work and Migration: Case Studies from around the World

Author(s): / Language(s): English

The purpose of this edited book is to look at work and migration from multiple viewpoints and illuminate challenges faced by immigrants in the labour markets around the world. It takes an approach that listens to the voices of different migrant groups in different countries, based mostly on qualitative research. In addition to the main themes of discussion centred on labour markets, this book also makes reference to a wide range of discussion topics which often intersect with employment, labour markets and the work experience of migrants. These include themes such as migrant integration, remittance transfers, relations established and maintained with home countries, legal and institutional arrangements and policy making processes in the host countries, through the concepts of employment and work. The chapters highlight immigrants’ experiences both theoretically and empirically in the contributions around the world. “This book, which includes the experiences of specific groups like qualified, unskilled, and female migrants, makes reference to a wide range of discussion topics such as migrant integration, remittance transfers, relations established and maintained with home countries, legal and institutional arrangements and policy making processes in the host countries, through the concepts of employment and work.”

Yeiyá, Revista de Estudios Críticos

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: United Kingdom

Yeiyá is a biannual peer-reviewed international journal (January-June, July-December), indexed and open access, edited by a group of researchers from different universities. Yeiyá, taken from the Huichol or Wixáricas, an ethnic group that inhabits the central-western lands of Mexico, means walking. In this sense the journal seeks to advance in the construction of an inter / multi disciplinary dialogue on current local challenges. Yeiyá promotes critical, decolonial perspectives, to develop an innovative academic-research space.

Yeiyá, Revista de Estudios Críticos es una Revista Semestral (enero-junio, julio-diciembre), indexada y de acceso abierto, editada por un grupo de investigadores de diferentes universidades. Yeiyá, tomado del huichol o wixáricas, grupo etnico que habitan las tierras del centro-oeste de México, cuyo significado es caminar, en este sentido la revista busca avanzar en la construcción de un dialogo inter/multi disciplinar de las problematicas actuales a nivel g-local. Definitivamente, desde Yeiyá impulsamos las perspectivas criticas, decoloniales, para desarrollar un espacio academico-investigativo donde muchos mundos sean posibles.

Yeniötesi Yazında Özkurmaca

Author(s): Ali Tilbe / Language(s): Turkish

Bu çalışmada, özkurmacanın açınımını anlayabilmek için, öncelikle Philippe Lejeune’ün yaklaşımıyla özyaşamöyküsü türünün tarihsel gelişimi ve niteliklerini belirlemeye çalışacağız. Özkurmaca kavramı, açık bir biçimde Yeniötesi dönemin bir ürünüdür. Bu nedenle, yeni (fr. moderne) ve yeniötesici (fr. postmoderniste) kurama özel bir bölüm açarak, yazınsal düzlemde yenilikçilikle (fr. modernisme) yeniötesicilik arasındaki benzerlikleri ve ayrıklıkları göstermeye çalışacağız. Daha sonra, özkurmaca kavramını yeniötesici ulamına yerleştirmeye ve günümüzde de süren son tartışmaları açımlamaya çaba göstereceğiz.Bu çalışmada, çok sayıda benli anlatı yazarının yapıtlarından örnekler verilirken, son bölümde son dönemin en önemli benli anlatı yazarlarından birisi olan Annie Ernaux’nun Passion simple ile L’Occupation adlı romanlarına özkurmaca bir okuma yapmak için özel bir bölüm açılacaktır.

Young Migration. Vulnerabilities, Boundaries, Protection and Integration

Author(s): / Language(s): English

This book is the product of a fascinating conference held in Bari, Italy, in June 2019. Viewing the content of the collection of chapters included in the book, one can discover that, in that conference, presenters and organisers implicitly heed Dobson’s invitation (2009) to unpack children [and youth] in migration research. Doing this, contributors successfully overcame two kinds of “adultist constructions” (Holt & Holloway 2006) that are typical in the literature about international migrant children. First, the perspective that overlooks children in migration research simply because they are not “migrants”, they are “things”, “objects” or “suitcases” carried by their parents or other adults. In the collection of contributions gathered by Ana Vila-Freyer and Gökay Mehmet Ozerim, readers will discover exactly the opposite: children and youth are migrants. Instead of being “objects”, children and youth circulate, produce mental maps, have educational purposes while moving from one country to another. They build their own forms of understanding about the role and the duties of their legal guardians when they move unaccompanied and separated from their parents; they also talk about their own experiences. These children produce their narrative about what international mobility means for them; they even create their identities referring to different heritages, languages and feelings. In some cases, they are proud of their origins while accommodating the changes for acquiring new nationalities.

Youth Identity, Politics and Change in Contemporary Kurdistan

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Today’s youth are challenging the older political class around the world and are forming new political generations. Examples from South Africa and elsewhere where peace processes were deemed to be successful show signs of youth disapproval of the current post-conflict conditions. Moreover, the Arab Spring witnessed numerous youth movements emerge in authoritarian and illiberal contexts. This book was prepared in light of these discussions and aims to contribute to these ongoing debates on youth politics by presenting the situation of youth in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) as a case study. It will be the first book that specifically focuses on the Iraqi Kurdish youth and their political, social, and economic participation in Kurdistan. The contemporary history of the KRI is marked by conflict, war, and ethnic cleansing under Saddam Hussein and the tyranny of the Ba’ath regime, significantly affecting the political situation of the Kurds in the Middle East. Most of the recent academic literature has focused on the broader picture or, in other words, the macro politics of the Kurdish conundrum within Iraq and beyond. There is little scholarship about the Kurdish population and their socio-economic conditions after 2003, and almost none about the younger generation of Kurds who came of age during autonomous Kurdish rule. This is a generation that, unlike their forebears, has no direct memory of the decades-long campaigns of repression. Studying and examining the rise of this generation of Kurdish young millennials—“Generation 2000”—who came of age in the aftermath of the United States invasion of Iraq offers a unique approach to understand the dynamics in a region that underwent a substantial socio-political transformation after 2003 as well as the impact of these developments on the youth population. Pursuing different themes and lines of inquiry the contributors of the book analyze the challenges and opportunities for young men and women to fulfil their needs and desires, and contribute to the ongoing quest for nationhood and nation-building.

Yurt Dışında Türkler Göçmenlik, Etnisite ve Din

Author(s): / Language(s): Turkish

Elinizdeki bu kitap, Türkiye’den yurt dışına göç eden insanların bulundukları ülkelerdeki göçmenlik halleri üzerine odaklanmaktadır. Çalışmada alanlarında uzman on akademisyen tarafından, Almanya, Fransa, Hollanda, Avusturya, Belçika, Danimarka, İsveç, Norveç, İngiltere ve Amerika’da yerleşik Türk göçmenlerin kültürel, sosyal, ekonomik, etnik ve dinsel yaşam tecrübeleri bütüncül bir bakışla ele alınmaktadır. Ayrıca her bir bölüm, Türk göçmenler tarafından tesis edilen dinî sivil örgütlenmeler etrafında şekillenen dinsel yaşam tecrübeleri üzerine sosyolojik analizleri de ihtiva etmektedir.