Book Reviews by Recep Baydemir
Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, 2025
Immigration realities: Challenging common misperceptions By ErnestoCastañeda & CarinaCione, New York: Columbia University Press. 2024. pp. 368
International Migration, 2025
Urban movements and climate change: loss, damage and radical adaptation edited by Marco Armiero, Ethemcan Turhan, and Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, (eds.). Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2023, 290 pp., index. €122.00 (hardback), ISBN 9789463726665, € 0,00 (eBook PDF), e-ISBN 9789048554805
Social Movement Studies, 2025
Electronic Journal of Social Sciences, 2018
In this study, a journalist and author, Tim Mashall, who has written in the geopolitical field, has been trying to prove that the most important factor that has influenced the history of humanity from the beginning to the end and which determines the destiny of the countries Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About The World In this study which evaluates the book, although the book has some shortcomings, it is not only a book that should be read by a geographer, geography student or political scientist, but also all students and academics, writers, researchers, and, ultimately, one who can read it without being bored. İt is emphasized that it is a book.
Munzur Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2017
İDEALKENT, 2025
İnsan ve Toplum, 2024
Sosyoloji Dergisi, 2024
Books by Recep Baydemir
Contemporary Social Transformations: Power, Identity, Culture, and Knowledge in A Changing World, 2025
Contemporary Social Transformations: Power, Identity, Culture, and Knowledge in A Changing World, 2025
Current Concepts and Innovative Research in Social, Human and Administrative Sciences, 2025
the host community and migrants based on the findings of a study conducted on Syrians in Sanliurfa. While I use data obtained from a literature review in my research, I primarily draw on my doctoral thesis, which I conducted in Sanliurfa between April and September 2020. I discuss marriage and divorce practices between the host community and migrants based on data obtained from Syrians and Sanliurfa residents in Sanliurfa. The findings of my research show that social contact between the two communities has increased significantly, particularly through marriages, but that these relationships are asymmetrical due to ‘different social positions,’ ‘perceptions,’ and ‘power dynamics.’ Looking at the results regarding marriage and divorce patterns, it is seen that the divorce rate among Syrian participants after migration is low (8 per cent). In contrast, approximately half of the Syrians stated that one of their family members got married after migration. While 80 per cent of marriages after migration took place among Syrians, 20 per cent were with individuals from Sanliurfa. The data I have obtained clearly indicates that there is a significant level of contact between the two communities based on marriage. However, from the perspective of the Sanliurfa participants, the fact that 66 per cent of participants stated that they would be uncomfortable if a member of their family married a Syrian indicates that the cultural distance between the two communities persists and that marriage serves as an important boundary for the Sanliurfa participants.
The most important finding I reached in my research was that Sanliurfa
participants tended to conceal their relationships with Syrians. This situation can be explained by ‘negative social perceptions’ towards Syrians, ‘othering discourses’ and ‘the host community’s desire to see itself in a primary position’. Therefore, it is understood that reporting kinship relationships leads to being perceived as a ‘loss of status’ or ‘degradation and humiliation.’ Based on these important findings, I argue that kinship and marriage relationships between migrants and the host community are shaped in the context of the ‘dominant community’ and ‘power relations.’
Keywords – Forced Mass Migration, Marriages and Divorces, Family Structure, Syrians, Sanliurfa/Türkiye.
Turizm ve Kültür Araştırmaları, 2025
Social Problems in the Context of Globalization, 2024
Sociological Evaluations of Various Social Transformation, 2023
HARRAN ÜNİVERSİTESİ BİLİMSEL ARAŞTIRMA KURULU (HÜBAK), 2017
Papers by Recep Baydemir
The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies , 2019
İnsan Hareketliliği Uluslararası Dergisi, 2025
Keywords: Migration, Social Mobility, Identity, Belonging, Hybrid Identity, Syrians from Türkiye
Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2025
Dicle Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2025
Türkiye’de son yıllarda genelde göç olgusu özelde de Suriyeliler, literatürde alevlenmiş bir konu olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Suriyelilerle ilgili her gün neredeyse onlarca yeni “akademik” çalışma yayımlanırken, bu anlamda binlerce çalışmanın olduğu geniş bir literatür birikmiştir. Ancak, bu literatürde, metodolojik sorunlar, dilin ve terimlerin yanlış kullanımı, önyargılar, bulguların genelleme biçimi, kuramsal hatalar, yanlış kavram kullanımları gibi ciddi hataların ve eksikliklerin olduğu çalışmalar göze çarpmaktadır. Bu araştırmada, Suriyelilerle ilgili yapılmış akademik çalışmalardaki metodolojik sorunlar, yanlış dil ve kavram kullanımları, önyargılar ve genelleme eğilimleri vurgulanarak mevcut literatür eleştiriye tabi tutulmaktadır. Araştırmada, Google Scholar, Dergipark, Ulakbim TR Dizin ve YÖK Ulusal Tez Merkezi veri tabanları üzerinden “Suriyeli” ve “Suriyeliler” kelimeleri girilerek genel bir tarama yapılmıştır. Tarama sonrası ortaya çıkan çalışmalar, tematik olarak gruplandırılmıştır. Böylelikle, doğrudan veya dolaylı olarak Suriyelilerle ilgili yapılmış çalışmalar belirlenerek, bu çalışmaların genel bir çerçevesi oluşturulmaya çalışılmıştır. Araştırmada, Suriyeliler üzerine niceliksel açıdan zengin bir literatürün biriktiği ve bu literatürün Suriyelileri çeşitli açılardan anlamaya katkı sağladığı, ancak söz konusu literatürün Suriyelilerin portresini henüz ortaya koymaktan uzak olduğu vurgulanmaktadır.
Anahtar Kelime: Türkiye’deki Suriyeliler, Akademik Çalışmalar, Literatür Eleştirisi, Nesnellik, Kavramsal ve Metodolojik Sorunlar.
Abstract
In recent years in Türkiye, the phenomenon of migration in general and Syrians in particular has become a frequently discussed topic in the literature. While almost dozens of new “academic” studies on Syrians are published every day, a vast literature with thousands of studies has accumulated. However, in this literature, studies with serious errors and deficiencies such as methodological problems, misuse of language and terms, prejudices, generalization of findings, theoretical errors, and misuse of concepts stand out. In this study, methodological problems, misuse of language and terms, biases and generalization tendencies in academic studies on Syrians are emphasized and the existing literature is subjected to criticism. In the research, a general search was conducted by entering the words “Syrian” and “Syrians” through Google Scholar, Dergipark, Ulakbim TR Index and CoHE National Thesis Center databases. The studies that emerged after the search were grouped thematically. In this way, a general framework of these studies was tried to be established by identifying studies directly or indirectly related to Syrians. The study emphasizes that a quantitatively rich literature on Syrians has accumulated, and that this literature contributes to understanding Syrians from various perspectives, but that this literature is still far from presenting a portrait of Syrians.
Keywords: Syrians in Türkiye, Academic Studies, Criticism of Literature, Objectivity, The Problems of Conceptual and Methodological.
Göç Dergisi, 2024