Dilaver, Özge;
Redclift, Victoria;
(2023)
Between Here and Almost There: The Greek–Turkish Border as a Place of Passage.
Sociology
10.1177/00380385231194875.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article studies the life-stories and identity narratives of Turks of Western Thrace (Greece) focusing on the role of the Turkish–Greek border and its changing permeability. It suggests that people who have strong attachments to both sides of a national border experience spatial liminality and the border is a place of passage between not only territories, but also lived identities. For young Turks of Western Thrace, travelling to Turkey to work or study is an established strategy that is intertwined with major life events. Drawing on ride-along interviews and focusing on five participants, who travelled to Turkey during the Cyprus crisis, the article identifies the disciplinary power of bordering on identities and life-stories. By examining how different individuals dealt with this power, and how their circumstances affected the outcomes, it explores the tensions between agency and structure, state power and resistance, and categorisation and liminality during life-planning and identity construction.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Between Here and Almost There: The Greek–Turkish Border as a Place of Passage |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00380385231194875 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231194875 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2023. Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | border-crossing, bordering, identity construction, liminality, mobile interview, ride-along interview |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176493 |
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