The solitary female refugees and the widows' asylum (Kırmızı kışla) in late nineteenth-century Istanbul

dc.authorscopusid35361748300
dc.contributor.authorBalsoy, G.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:17:24Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:17:24Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the short-lived asylum, Kırmızı Kışla (Red Barracks), established to offer shelter and protection to the women forced to migrate to the Ottoman capital as the result of the 1877-78 Russo-Ottoman War. The main Ottoman policy toward the refugees was to settle them in the underpopulated parts of the imperial territory. However, women who lost their families were not seen suitable for the Ottoman settlement policy unlike the male refugees who offered the twin benefits of cultivating land and paying tax. But what the solitary female refugees would do in the Ottoman capital, where they were going to stay, or how they would earn their bread was not clear. Moreover, the bureaucrats as well as the middle classes of the city feared that protracted poverty and misery might draw especially women without male guardians to immoral ways. The asylum in Istanbul was established in such a context and with the concern to offer relief and control to refugee women. In sum, this article focuses on the specific case of Kırmızı Kışla as an opportunity to discuss the experiences of the otherwise invisible female refugees and search ways of making them agents of research. Copyright © 2019 Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2979/jottturstuass.6.2.07
dc.identifier.endpage90en_US
dc.identifier.issn2376-0699
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85079646899en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3en_US
dc.identifier.startpage73en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2979/jottturstuass.6.2.07
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/6519
dc.identifier.volume6en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIndiana University Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Associationen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subject1877-78 Russo-Ottoman Waren_US
dc.subjectDestitutionen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectRefugee Womenen_US
dc.subjectWidowhooden_US
dc.subjectWidows' Asylumen_US
dc.titleThe solitary female refugees and the widows' asylum (Kırmızı kışla) in late nineteenth-century Istanbul
dc.typeReview Article

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