https://www.elifsari.ca/new-page daily 0.75 2023-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601565937772-643V34RIDYGPR1KJIB3K/add%2Bto%2Bresearch.jpg Teaching An image from the first day of my Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East class, where students created a board with all the words/images that come to their mind when they hear the phrases “gender and sexuality” and “the Middle East.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/b1354ead-246e-4c5e-8dba-0944819394f2/padlet+image.png https://www.elifsari.ca/publications daily 0.75 2020-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601543214135-9OW2JSJM8FI82JY09AM3/d.jpg Research Upon their registration, the Turkish state assigns refugees to small towns, known as “satellite cities,” located mostly in the interior of the country. My field site, Denizli, is one of them and has the largest LGBTQ refugee population in Turkey. (An image from Denizli, Turkey. Photo by Sajad Gzd) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601566174176-KPIB7U14DSG1MYA62ENT/9.jpg Research (An image from Denizli, Turkey. Photo by Sajad Gzd) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601542956162-PDH1D05FD3YHCFU74P0T/IMG_0629.jpg Research (An image from Denizli, Turkey. Photo by Makhism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601566180266-GMNENM26O6RU9KFHK97K/b.jpg Research (An image from Denizli, Turkey. Photo by Sajad Gzd) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601542951131-U0EZ3GMP41XZHYRXJNGJ/IMG_0561.jpg Research Refugees have restricted mobility in their respective cities: they have to 'sign-in' regularly at the local migration offices via iris recognition and fingerprint scanning, and even a small trip to a nearby town without 'travel permits' puts them at the risk of deportation. (An image of the Migration Governorate in Denizli. Photo by Makhism) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601649713520-SVLRGDNLTO48XU85PO71/DSC_0655.JPG Research An ordinary morning in front of the Migration Governorate. Refugees are waiting to fulfill the mandatory 'sign-in' requirement, renew their refugee identity cards, or apply for travel permits. (Photo by the author) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601542929651-54OHJZD1A255LERUZPJD/IMG_0585.jpg Research “As refugees walk back and forth between their homes/workplaces and the Migration Directorate’s office on sign-in days, this old narrow bridge turns into a temporary socializing space. Refugees see their friends and neighbors; acquittances wave at and call out to each other; they take a break to smoke together on the bridge.” (excerpt from my ethnography) Photo by Makhism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601566208380-UYG7MCUP1W5DJD3OPT35/FIGURE+4.jpg Research During my ethnographic research, I worked in a small-scale unregistered textile atelier alongside with my interlocutors. Although refugees have the right to work in Turkey, obtaining the necessary work permits is a costly and burdensome process. Thus, the vast majority of LGBTQ refugees work as day laborers in construction, manufacturing, textile, and service industries without work permits. (An image from the textile atelier I worked. Photo by the author) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601542497270-ORYM12IWVHHDGWHTG78Y/eylem.jpg Research Refugees have responded to the restricting resettlement policies of the United States and Canada through an increasing communal and political organizing. (An image from the 'silent protest' in Denizli) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f73700eda7a300cf7ef7487/1601542497300-SSAIVIOEFPDMFSNWTQ8J/EU_USED+workshop.jpg Research As they wait in Turkey, LGBTQ refugees establish political alliances and cultivate new solidarities with Turkey's queer, trans, and activist communities. 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