Saraçoğlu Cenk
Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus.
Patterns Prejudice. 2010;44(3):239-60. doi: 10.1080/0031322X.2010.489735.
Saraçoğlu deals with the ways in which the Kurdish migrants living in the western cities of Turkey have been identified in middle-class discourse by certain pejorative labels and stereotypes. He argues that this new Kurdish image demonstrates the ethnicization of longstanding anti-migrant sentiments in Turkey. He develops and substantiates the argument by means of qualitative data gathered in a field study in zmir between June 2006 and July 2007. The study involved ninety in-depth interviews with middle-class individuals living in the city and explored their anti-Kurdish attitudes. Through a close analysis of two of the common stereotypes that these interviewees deployed in the interviews-namely, that the Kurds were 'benefit scroungers' and that they 'disrupt urban life'- Saraçoğlu explores the formation of the urban social context in which such perceptions have emerged. Close examination of the narratives of the middle-class respondents indicates that the development of a new image of the Kurds has occurred in an urban context shaped by the neoliberal transformation of Turkish cities, on the one hand, and the internal displacement of Kurdish migrants, on the other.
萨拉措卢探讨了生活在土耳其西部城市的库尔德移民在中产阶级话语中是如何被某些贬义词和刻板印象所定义的。他认为，这种新的库尔德形象体现了土耳其长期以来反移民情绪的种族化。他通过2006年6月至2007年7月在伊兹密尔进行的实地研究收集的定性数据来发展并证实这一论点。该研究对生活在该市的中产阶级个体进行了90次深度访谈，并探究了他们的反库尔德态度。通过仔细分析这些受访者在访谈中使用的两种常见刻板印象，即库尔德人是“福利寄生虫”以及他们“扰乱城市生活”，萨拉措卢探究了这种认知得以出现的城市社会背景的形成。对中产阶级受访者叙述的仔细审视表明，库尔德人新形象的形成一方面发生在土耳其城市新自由主义转型所塑造的城市背景中，另一方面发生在库尔德移民的国内流离失所背景下。
