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A case study on irregular migration and protection systems: the liminality of Afghan women in Istanbul
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2022) Oshnavieh, Negin Darvishahmadi; Semerci, Pınar Uyan
ABSTRACT: Among the irregular migrants living in Istanbul, undocumented Afghan women have received disproportionately little attention in the literature on refugees and migrants in Turkey. Through interviews with fifteen such women, this study explores how they see their current lives following the journey from Afghanistan, the challenges experienced, and the strategies used to survive, as well as their conception of the future. Taking into account other research on migrants regionally and globally, the study finds that all the participants have experienced, to a greater or lesser degree, a state of ‘liminality’, often expressed in the strong Dari term of bisarneveshti (‘having no assigned destiny’). The fundamental uncertainty resulting from their lack of legal status generates further sources of uncertainty: exclusion from social and economic structures results in extreme hopelessness and depression. Paradoxically, though, they remain hopeful in the face of their hopelessness.