What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey
So far, immigration scholars have mostly taken up the religion issue in terms of adaptation or non-adaptation to the host society and research on the role of religion as carriers of positive social capital in transit countries has not given enough attention. Drawing on the migration histories of two...
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Université de Provence
2007-11-01
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| Series: | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
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| author | Sebnem Koser Akcapar |
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| description | So far, immigration scholars have mostly taken up the religion issue in terms of adaptation or non-adaptation to the host society and research on the role of religion as carriers of positive social capital in transit countries has not given enough attention. Drawing on the migration histories of two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, converted cases to Christianity and Bahais, this paper will examine the differences and similarities between these two groups. It will further discuss the religious identity of these two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey and how they use their social and religious networks within different congregations and Bahai spiritual assemblies in Turkey to determine destination countries in the transit country and to reach ultimately the West as refugees. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8ffbdd21f9574ed1bb7d08dccdfcfb582024-02-13T15:20:58ZengUniversité de ProvenceRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée0997-13272105-22712007-11-011198110010.4000/remmm.4143What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in TurkeySebnem Koser AkcaparSo far, immigration scholars have mostly taken up the religion issue in terms of adaptation or non-adaptation to the host society and research on the role of religion as carriers of positive social capital in transit countries has not given enough attention. Drawing on the migration histories of two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, converted cases to Christianity and Bahais, this paper will examine the differences and similarities between these two groups. It will further discuss the religious identity of these two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey and how they use their social and religious networks within different congregations and Bahai spiritual assemblies in Turkey to determine destination countries in the transit country and to reach ultimately the West as refugees.https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/4143 |
| spellingShingle | Sebnem Koser Akcapar What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
| title | What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey |
| title_full | What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey |
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| title_full_unstemmed | What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey |
| title_short | What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey |
| title_sort | what s god got to do with it the role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants networks in turkey |
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