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Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement

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Materializing Migrants’ Emotions

An Ethnography of Displacement Through Objects Among Syrians in Turkey

Selçuk Gündüz

Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license as a part of the Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.

216 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80758-058-2 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (October 2026)


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“This is a thoughtful and sensitive discussion of displaced Syrians in Turkey, using the lens of material culture to tease out the human experience of migration. There are some very rich examples deployed across the text.” • Kathy Burrell, University of Liverpool

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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.

Selçuk Gündüz is an Assistant Professor at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University. In 2022, he earned a TÜBİTAK scholarship and carried out research as a visiting researcher at Queen's University Belfast. He conducts research grounded in ethnography on migration, material culture, gender and the Alevi belief system.

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies
Area: Middle East & Israel

Materializing Migrants’ Emotions by Selçuk Gündüz is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) as a part of the Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.

OA ISBN: 978-1-80758-056-8



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