Syrian Refugees and Agriculture in Turkey

Work, Precarity, Survival

Saniye Dedeoglu (Mugla University, Turkey)

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English

I.B. Tauris
24 August 2023

Refugees & political asylum; Migration, immigration & emigration; Gender studies: women; Sociology: work & labour; Agriculture & related industries

Turkey is home to the largest Syrian refugee community in the world and the agricultural industry offers work opportunities for vulnerable Syrian refugee families. This book exposes the fast-changing relationship between seasonal agricultural production and the work practices of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Through close ethnographic study carried out over three years with nearly 1000 people, the book illuminates how the increasing number of incoming Syrians results in the ‘precarization’ of the workers – particularly women and children. The author examines Syrian families’ working and living conditions with a special interest in the dynamics of how they utilise the labour of women and children to survive and have access to work.

An in-depth study of the Syrian community – at a time when the state apparatus is hostile to research on the subject – the material in this book is unique and offers an insight into remote agricultural sites that are invisible to many. It is an analysis of the precarization process of Syrian labour in an industry that wants to attract the most vulnerable people into the workforce. By focusing on the intersectional vulnerabilities and the context-dependent precarization, the book argues that the commercialization of agricultural production and the increasing use of waged labour blooms antagonistic encounters of different ethnic, cultural and religious groups in rural Turkey.

By: Saniye Dedeoglu (Mugla University Turkey)
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780755646548
ISBN 10: 0755646541
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 24 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: World’s Refugees, Labour Market Integration and Precarisation Chapter Three: Syrians in Turkey: Temporary Protection-Permanent Precarity Chapter Four: Labour Markets and Migrants in Turkey Chapter Five: Syrian Families, Women and Children in Seasonal Agricultural Work: A Supply Side Analysis Chapter Six: Team Work, Intermediaries and Wage in Seasonal Agricultural Work: A Demand Side Analysis Chapter Seven: Conclusion

Saniye Dedeoglu is Associate Professor at Mugla University, Turkey. She is the author of Migrants, Work and Social Integration: Women’s Labour in the Turkish Ethnic Economy (2014) and Women Workers in Turkey: Global Industrial Production in Istanbul (I.B.Tauris, 2012) as well as numerous book chapters and articles.

Reviews for Syrian Refugees and Agriculture in Turkey: Work, Precarity, Survival

[An] unusual and original approach to understanding refugee livelihoods in Turkey ... There is a focus on women and children in the labour market, a sector largely ignored in most contemporary studies. * Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford, UK *