Materializing Migrants’ Emotions: An Ethnography of Displacement Through Objects Among Syrians in Turkey
Selçuk Gündüz
Oct 2026 · Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement Book 18 · Berghahn Books
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By tracing the stories and emotions that emerge through the objects with which migrants associate, it examines human–object relations in the experiences of Syrian migrants in Turkey. It offers a deep ethnographic account of their social and cultural life, mapping the emotional landscape of displacement. It shows how these materials articulate cultural categories such as family, homeland, faith, and home. In doing so, it demonstrates how objects instilled with meaning shape migrants’ identities and sense of belonging in the new place.
By tracing the stories and emotions that emerge through the objects with which migrants associate, it examines human–object relations in the experiences of Syrian migrants in Turkey. It offers a deep ethnographic account of their social and cultural life, mapping the emotional landscape of displa...
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Selçuk Gündüz is Assistant Professor at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University. In 2022, he received a TÜBITAK fellowship and conducted research as a visiting researcher at Queen’s University Belfast. He completed his PhD in 2023. His ethnographic research focuses on migration, material culture, gender and Alevi belief and practice.
Selçuk Gündüz is Assistant Professor at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University. In 2022, he received a TÜBITAK fellowship and conducted research as a visiting researcher at Queen’s University Belfast. He completed his PhD in 2023. His ethnographic research focuses on migration, material culture, gender a...
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