Papers by Zeynep Yılmaz Hava
DergiPark (Istanbul University), Mar 31, 2023
This research explores the transnational and dynamic connection between food, culture, and migrat... more This research explores the transnational and dynamic connection between food, culture, and migration by examining the Syrian foodscapes in Istanbul's Fatih district-one of the most popular settlement areas for Syrian refugees in Türkiye-following the forced migration flows due to civil war in 2011. Based on semi-structured deep interviews (82 people) and participant observation, the paper aims at understanding the social transformations after migration. Rather than focusing on the refugee households, I concentrate on the public café-restaurants, food markets, delis, herbalists etc. as places of contestation and negotiation for Syrian people to construct new social/economic ties and to claim a right to the city. Social networks for
Moment Journal (ISSN: 2148-970X), 2023
This research explores the transnational and dynamic connection between food, culture, and migrat... more This research explores the transnational and dynamic connection between food, culture, and migration by examining the Syrian foodscapes in Istanbul's Fatih district-one of the most popular settlement areas for Syrian refugees in Türkiye-following the forced migration flows due to civil war in 2011. Based on semi-structured deep interviews (82 people) and participant observation, the paper aims at understanding the social transformations after migration. Rather than focusing on the refugee households, I concentrate on the public café-restaurants, food markets, delis, herbalists etc. as places of contestation and negotiation for Syrian people to construct new social/economic ties and to claim a right to the city. Social networks for Syrian migrants are of utmost importance because they struggle to build new lives in the metropolitan cities
almost completely relying on their own social networks and financial capital. The food businesses in Fatih emerge as distinct places where we can trace the ways in which Syrian migrants build/maintain or transform social bonds, shared identities, cultural traditions, socio-economic ties, daily-life habits, consumption-production patterns, etc.. However, these networks might also counteract as mechanisms of exclusion for Syrian migrants both hindering social cohesion with the receiving society and continuing the fellowship- kinship ties. My study offers field-driven discussion points to gain more insight into these intricate relationships among migrant foodways, socio-cultural integration and social networks.
Keywords: Migrant foodscapes, socio-cultural integration, social networks, Syrian refugees in Türkiye
If what makes us write some lyrics is our brain, and if music comes from our heart, then the song... more If what makes us write some lyrics is our brain, and if music comes from our heart, then the song itself might be the only medium where the brain and heart are not in conflict. Throughout history songs have been a way of expressing oneself, and it is their sounds that will accompany mankind till the end of time. In this paper, we are going to deal with a process that helps songs to travel across the world: song translation. The aim of the paper is to provide an analysis of some French songs and their arrangements performed in the period 1960-80 in order to demonstrate that a musical arrangement might be regarded as a translation and that it is the translator’s skopos that directs the translation process. In the paper, we consider translation as “a process of intercultural communication, whose end product is a text which is capable of functioning appropriately in specific situations and contexts of use” (ed. Baker 2001: 3).
İnsan & Toplum Dergisi (The Journal of Human & Society), 2018
Multiculturalism and multilingualism are inevitable consequences of international migration. Cont... more Multiculturalism and multilingualism are inevitable consequences of international migration. Contact between different linguistic or ethnic groups causes the development of expressions specific to one's identity and for migrants it results in the construction of hybrid identities which are very complex to define and understand without knowing the conditions of their construction processes. This paper aims to contribute to the literature about the identity construction of migrants, to assess the link between language and identity in this process. In this regard, I have pursued a qualitative research focusing on the second-generation Turkish-speaking community in Belgium. As a result of the study, it is observed that the migrants' ideologies show traces of national discourses most of the time but their actual language performances and practices contradict these ideologies. The immigrants facing institutional or cultural racism in the host country create new multidimensional and transnational spheres in which they perform multiple identities through varying language usages. This research aims to provide a more comprehensive and deeper analysis regarding the link among language ideologies, linguistic differences and identity construction processes in the contemporary Europe, starting from the Belgian case by taking into account the linguistic aspect in a supra-national environment.
Drafts by Zeynep Yılmaz Hava
Bu araştırma, İstanbul’da Suriye mutfağından ürünler sunan kafe-restoranlar bağlamında yeni göç k... more Bu araştırma, İstanbul’da Suriye mutfağından ürünler sunan kafe-restoranlar bağlamında yeni göç kültürleri, göçmenlerde kimlik-aidiyet dönüşümü, göç sonrası toplumsal kabul ve uyum süreçlerinde yemek kavramının işlevini konu edinmektedir. Çalışmanın amacı, 2011’deki savaş sonrası Fatih’te Suriyeli göçmenler tarafından yemek kültürü aracılığıyla inşa edilip yeniden üretilen ulusaşırı, değişken ve çoklu gastro-akışları (immigrant foodscapes) incelemek ve bölgede son on yılda meydana gelen toplumsal değişim sürecini anlamaya katkı sağlamaktır. Yaklaşık bir buçuk yıl süren etnografik araştırma kapsamında Fatih Merkez, Yusufpaşa ve Aksaray semtlerinden 80 kişi (50 işletme) ve 3 odak grup ile yarı-yapılandırılmış derinlemesine mülakatlar gerçekleştirilmiş olup, katılımcı gözlem metodu ile ek veriler toplanmıştır. Son on bir yıldır Türkiye’ye göç eden Suriyeli grupların büyük çoğunluğu, geçici barınma merkezlerinde kalmak yerine daha iyi yaşam koşullarına erişebilmek amacıyla -neredeyse tamamen kendi beşeri, sosyal ve finansal sermayelerine güvenerek- İstanbul başta olmak üzere büyük şehirlere göç etmiştir. Ülkedeki belirsizlikler ve güvencesizlik koşullarında açılan gıda işletmeleri, bir anlamda yeni mücadele ve müzakere alanları olarak Suriyeli göçmenlerin büyük kentsel merkezlerde kendilerine yeni bir alan açma çabasının somut göstergesi olarak öne çıkmaktadır. Bir yandan da kültürün önemli sembollerinden biri olan yemeğin çeşitli gruplar arasında kültürel uzlaşıyı mı yoksa kültürel çatışmayı mı daha fazla beslediği konusu tartışmaya açılmaktadır. Ayrıca, bu süreçte Fatih’teki Suriyeli kafe-restoranların hızlı artışı ile bölgedeki kentsel doku -özellikle Malta Çarşısı ve Yusufpaşa- ciddi bir dönüşüm geçirerek ilçedeki toplumsal değişimin izini sürebileceğimiz önemli merkezler haline gelmiştir. Bu araştırmada sahadan elde edilen birincil veriler ışığında, bahsi geçen tartışma konularına dair güncel bulguların ve yeni bakış açılarının sunulması hedeflenmektedir. Böylelikle, mutfak kültürünün hem göçmenler hem yerleşik gruplar açısından taşıdığı anlamlar, göç ile yaşanan toplumsal dönüşümler ve kültürel bir sembol olarak yemeğin toplumsal kabul ve uyum sürecinde oynadığı roller ele alınmaktadır.
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This research explores the link between food, culture, and migration by examining the Syrian food premises in Istanbul’s Fatih district, one of the most popular settlement areas for Syrian refugees in Turkey. So far, I have collected rich first-hand data from 80 interviewees (plus 3 focus groups) and 50 food premises by conducting semi-structured deep interviews and participant observation. I build a theoretical framework based on an analytical combination of Arjun Appadurai’s five scapes of globalization, the idea of “transculturation” by Dirk Hoerder, and Zgymunt Bauman’s idea of liquid fear. Rather than focusing on the refugee households, I concentrate on the public café-restaurants, food markets, delis, herbalists etc. as places of contestation and negotiation for Syrian people to construct new social/economic ties and to claim a right to the city. Since the start of the refugee influx to Turkey in 2011, many Syrian migrants – among the nearly 3.7 million in total – migrated to larger cities such as Istanbul to seek better opportunities, instead of staying in refugee camps. The number of urban refugees is now higher than those in camps. Herein, social networks for Syrian migrants is of utmost importance because they struggle to build new lives in the metropolitan cities almost completely relying on their own social networks and financial capital. The food premises (mainly café-restaurants) in Fatih emerge as distinct places where we can trace the ways Syrian migrants build/maintain or transform social bonds, shared identities, cultural traditions, socio-economic ties, daily-life habits, consumption-production patterns and so on. However, the social networks might also counteract as mechanisms of exclusion for Syrian migrants both hindering social cohesion with the receiving society and continuing the fellowship-kinship ties. My study offers field-driven discussion points to gain more insight into these intricate relationships among migrant foodways, socio-cultural integration and social networks.
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Papers by Zeynep Yılmaz Hava
almost completely relying on their own social networks and financial capital. The food businesses in Fatih emerge as distinct places where we can trace the ways in which Syrian migrants build/maintain or transform social bonds, shared identities, cultural traditions, socio-economic ties, daily-life habits, consumption-production patterns, etc.. However, these networks might also counteract as mechanisms of exclusion for Syrian migrants both hindering social cohesion with the receiving society and continuing the fellowship- kinship ties. My study offers field-driven discussion points to gain more insight into these intricate relationships among migrant foodways, socio-cultural integration and social networks.
Keywords: Migrant foodscapes, socio-cultural integration, social networks, Syrian refugees in Türkiye
Drafts by Zeynep Yılmaz Hava
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This research explores the link between food, culture, and migration by examining the Syrian food premises in Istanbul’s Fatih district, one of the most popular settlement areas for Syrian refugees in Turkey. So far, I have collected rich first-hand data from 80 interviewees (plus 3 focus groups) and 50 food premises by conducting semi-structured deep interviews and participant observation. I build a theoretical framework based on an analytical combination of Arjun Appadurai’s five scapes of globalization, the idea of “transculturation” by Dirk Hoerder, and Zgymunt Bauman’s idea of liquid fear. Rather than focusing on the refugee households, I concentrate on the public café-restaurants, food markets, delis, herbalists etc. as places of contestation and negotiation for Syrian people to construct new social/economic ties and to claim a right to the city. Since the start of the refugee influx to Turkey in 2011, many Syrian migrants – among the nearly 3.7 million in total – migrated to larger cities such as Istanbul to seek better opportunities, instead of staying in refugee camps. The number of urban refugees is now higher than those in camps. Herein, social networks for Syrian migrants is of utmost importance because they struggle to build new lives in the metropolitan cities almost completely relying on their own social networks and financial capital. The food premises (mainly café-restaurants) in Fatih emerge as distinct places where we can trace the ways Syrian migrants build/maintain or transform social bonds, shared identities, cultural traditions, socio-economic ties, daily-life habits, consumption-production patterns and so on. However, the social networks might also counteract as mechanisms of exclusion for Syrian migrants both hindering social cohesion with the receiving society and continuing the fellowship-kinship ties. My study offers field-driven discussion points to gain more insight into these intricate relationships among migrant foodways, socio-cultural integration and social networks.
almost completely relying on their own social networks and financial capital. The food businesses in Fatih emerge as distinct places where we can trace the ways in which Syrian migrants build/maintain or transform social bonds, shared identities, cultural traditions, socio-economic ties, daily-life habits, consumption-production patterns, etc.. However, these networks might also counteract as mechanisms of exclusion for Syrian migrants both hindering social cohesion with the receiving society and continuing the fellowship- kinship ties. My study offers field-driven discussion points to gain more insight into these intricate relationships among migrant foodways, socio-cultural integration and social networks.
Keywords: Migrant foodscapes, socio-cultural integration, social networks, Syrian refugees in Türkiye
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This research explores the link between food, culture, and migration by examining the Syrian food premises in Istanbul’s Fatih district, one of the most popular settlement areas for Syrian refugees in Turkey. So far, I have collected rich first-hand data from 80 interviewees (plus 3 focus groups) and 50 food premises by conducting semi-structured deep interviews and participant observation. I build a theoretical framework based on an analytical combination of Arjun Appadurai’s five scapes of globalization, the idea of “transculturation” by Dirk Hoerder, and Zgymunt Bauman’s idea of liquid fear. Rather than focusing on the refugee households, I concentrate on the public café-restaurants, food markets, delis, herbalists etc. as places of contestation and negotiation for Syrian people to construct new social/economic ties and to claim a right to the city. Since the start of the refugee influx to Turkey in 2011, many Syrian migrants – among the nearly 3.7 million in total – migrated to larger cities such as Istanbul to seek better opportunities, instead of staying in refugee camps. The number of urban refugees is now higher than those in camps. Herein, social networks for Syrian migrants is of utmost importance because they struggle to build new lives in the metropolitan cities almost completely relying on their own social networks and financial capital. The food premises (mainly café-restaurants) in Fatih emerge as distinct places where we can trace the ways Syrian migrants build/maintain or transform social bonds, shared identities, cultural traditions, socio-economic ties, daily-life habits, consumption-production patterns and so on. However, the social networks might also counteract as mechanisms of exclusion for Syrian migrants both hindering social cohesion with the receiving society and continuing the fellowship-kinship ties. My study offers field-driven discussion points to gain more insight into these intricate relationships among migrant foodways, socio-cultural integration and social networks.