Hello my dear friends/ followers (since these two
words stand as synonyms for my blog it won’t be wrong to use it this way :P )
It’s been a long time without any posts and It also
took me some time to decide on my final paper subject. Initially I wanted to
write on the ‘illegal’ Armenian migrants in Turkey (remember we talked it in
the class, the ones that our Prime Minister Erdoğan announced that he is aware
of them but overlooks.)Anyway to find a gate was very hard especially because
there is a time concern so I talked with Anine that I have an alternative idea
to work on Bosnian migrant community in Istanbul which has a population density
in two district of Istanbul, Pendik and Bayrampaşa-Yıldırım. I’m interesting on
their perception of identity and also interesting on the differences in discourses.
Do they belong to their places of nationality or
do they belong to the place where they moved to? What’s the interplay in between? If there’s
any I mean. The community also has many foundations, associations, etc so I’m
also willing to look at the official discourse too.
I’ve also found a couple of academic articles related
to the issue, unfortunately not so much dealing with the recent 1992-1995
migration but I think it’s manageable when combined with our course material.
So I think that’s all for now but if you have any
suggestions, critiques, comments, etc I’ll be happy to hear.
I can suggest you a website which I already put on my blog : http://bosnianpaths.blogspot.com/
YanıtlaSilThey have some photographs and also one from Bayrampasa. They give information of Bosnian immigrants from different countries and they meet regularly.
In the book I read which is a fiction about a Bosnian immigrant, the main character has a confusion about his identitiy. I like this sentence from the book-since it is not exactly the same words:
"Home is a place where people miss you when you are gone."
Also probably, if Bosnians living here, do not have any relatives back at home, they most likely feel to belong here. It is not an absolute reality but probably true.
If you come across with these kind of ideas in your research, then my fiction story may be sound more real and we will back up each other ! = )
that might be true but also people might have this nostalgic connection to their pasts..(doesn't sound so bad??)
YanıtlaSilI'll look up at the website. lets see how will do things