Mediated Narratives of Syrian Refugees : Mapping Victim–Threat Correlations in Turkish Newspapers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayça Tunç Cox
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Main Transition ◽  
Special Case

Turkey has become the first and main transition hub for Syrian refugees. Furthermore, Turkey is spatially as well as culturally simultaneously referred to as European and Asian or Middle Eastern depending the point of view. Therefore, the representation of refugees in the Turkish press proves significant for the knowledge produced about refugees. Accordingly, this chapter strives to investigate the coverage of Syrian refugees in newspapers, which constitutes only one aspect of the overall reception of the issue in Turkey, and therefore does not claim to be exhaustive. Yet, because daily newspapers are still among the most important media sectors in Turkey, they constitute a special case of knowledge production worth investigating.

Birlikte Yaşama Kültürü Çerçevesinde Avrupa Birliği ve Türkiye Politikaları: Suriyelilere Yönelik Tutumun Sultanbeyli Örneği Üzerinden Değerlendirilmesi

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-61
Author(s):  
Pelin Sönmez ◽  
Abulfaz Süleymanov
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
Turkish People

Türkiye, Cumhuriyet tarihinin en yoğun zorunlu göç dalgasını 2011 yılından bu yana süren Suriye Savaşı ile yaşamaktadır. Suriye vatandaşlarının geçici koruma statüsü altında Türkiye toplumuna her açıdan entegrasyonları günümüzün ve geleceğin politika öncelikleri arasında düşünülmelidir. Öte yandan ülkeye kabul edilen sığınmacıların kendi kültürel kimliğini kaybetmeden içinde yaşadığı ev sahibi topluma uyumu, ortak yaşam kültürünün gelişmesi açısından önem arz etmektedir. Bu makalede, "misafir" olarak kabul edilen Suriyeli vatandaşların Türk toplumunca kabul edilmeleri ve dışlanma risklerinin azaltılmasına yönelik devlet politikaları ortaya konularak, üye ve aday ülkelere göçmenlerin dışlanmasını önlemek için Avrupa Birliği (AB) tarafından sunulan hukuki yapı ve kamu hizmeti inisiyatifleri incelenmekte, birlikte yaşam kültürü çerçevesinde Suriyeli vatandaşlara yönelik  toplumsal kabul düzeyleri ele alınmaktadır. Çalışma iki ana bölümden oluşmaktadır: göçmen ve sığınmacılara karşı toplumsal dışlanmayı engellemek için benimsenen yasa ve uygulamaların etkisi ve İstanbul-Sultanbeyli bölgesinde Suriyeli sığınmacılarla ilgili toplumsal algı çalışmasının sonuçları. Bölgede ikamet eden Suriyelilere yönelik toplumsal kabul düzeyinin yüksek olduğu görülürken, halkın Suriyelileri kendilerine  kültürel ve dini olarak yakın hissetmesi toplumsal kabul düzeyini olumlu etkilemektedir. ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHAn evaluation of the European Union and Turkish policies regarding the culture of living togetherThis article aims to determine the level of social acceptance towards Syrians within the context of cohabitation culture by evaluating EU’s legal structure and public service initiatives in order to prevent Syrian refugees from being excluded in member and candidate countries and by revealing government policies on acceptance of Syrians as “guest” by Turkish society and minimizing the exclusion risks of them. This article consists of two main parts, one of which is based on the effects of law and practices preventing refugees and asylum seekers from social exclusion, and the other is on the results of social perception on Syrians in Sultanbeyli district of Istanbul. At the end of 5-years taking in Syrian War, it is obvious that most of more than 3 million Syrian with unregistered ones in Turkey are “here to stay”. From this point of view, the primary scope of policies should be specified in order to remove side effects of refugee phenomenon seen as weighty matter by bottoming out the exclusion towards those people. To avoid possible large-scale conflicts or civil wars in the future, the struggle with exclusion phenomenon plays a crucial role regarding Turkey’s sociological situation and developing policies. In the meaning of forming a model for Turkey, a subtitle in this article is about public services for European-wide legal acquis and practices carried out since 1970s in order to prevent any exclusion from the society. On the other hand, other subtitles are about legal infrastructure and practices like Common European Asylum and Immigration Policies presented in 2005, and Law on Foreigners and International Protection introduced in 2013. In the last part of the article, the results of a field survey carried out in a district of Istanbul were used to analyze the exclusion towards refugees in Turkey. A face-to-face survey was randomly conducted with 200 settled refugees in Sultanbeyli district of Istanbul, and their perceptions towards Syrian people under temporary protection were evaluated. According to the results, the level of acceptance for Syrians living in this district seems relatively high. The fact that Turkish people living in the same district feel close to Syrian refugees culturally and religiously affect their perception in a positive way: however, it is strikingly seen and understood that local residents cop an attitude on the refugees’ becoming Turkish citizens.

A note on design-based versus model-based variance estimation in stereology

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 484-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asger Hobolth ◽  
Eva B. Vedel Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Original Problem ◽  
Variance Estimation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Systematic Sampling ◽  
Variance Estimator ◽  
Shape Model ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Versus Model ◽  
Special Case

Recently, systematic sampling on the circle and the sphere has been studied by Gual-Arnau and Cruz-Orive (2000) from a design-based point of view. In this note, it is shown that their mathematical model for the covariogram is, in a model-based statistical setting, a special case of the p-order shape model suggested by Hobolth, Pedersen and Jensen (2000) and Hobolth, Kent and Dryden (2002) for planar objects without landmarks. Benefits of this observation include an alternative variance estimator, applicable in the original problem of systematic sampling. In a wider perspective, the paper contributes to the discussion concerning design-based versus model-based stereology.

COPE for Adolescent Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: A Brief Cognitive–Behavioral Skill-Building Intervention to Improve Quality of Life and Promote Positive Mental Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 226-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Doumit ◽  
Chant Kazandjian ◽  
Lisa K. Militello
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Behavioral Intervention ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention

Lebanon has the highest per-capita concentration of refugees worldwide. There is an urgent need to offer psychosocial interventions to vulnerable groups such as Syrian refugee adolescents. To assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of a cognitive–behavioral intervention (Creating Opportunities for Patient Empowerment [COPE]) on depression, anxiety, and quality of life (QOL) in a sample of adolescent refugees (13-17 years) living in Lebanon. A preexperimental study design was used. COPE 7-Session was delivered to 31 adolescent Syrian refugees. Participants were assessed for depression (Personal Health Questionnaire–9), anxiety (General Anxiety Disorders Scale), and QOL (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory). Feasibility and acceptability findings indicated that the COPE program was a positive experience for teens. Significant decreases in depression and anxiety, and increases in QOL were also reported. COPE is an effective cognitive–behavioral intervention that can be delivered in an Arabic/Middle-Eastern setting for teen refugees to improve mental health and QOL.

Knowledge-production in journalism: Translation, mediation and authorship in Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Undurraga
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Interactional Expertise ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Knowledge Claims ◽  
Multiple Obstacles ◽  
Lay Public

Based on a multi-site ethnography of two influential newspapers in Brazil, this article examines how Brazilian journalists mediate knowledge claims made by experts, policy makers and the lay public. It asks whether and how these journalists experience themselves as knowledge-makers. More specifically, it argues that Brazilian journalists index their production of knowledge in reference to four main characteristics: depth, authorship, influence, and expertise. Journalists tend to consider newsmaking a contribution to knowledge when: (1) they have the resources to do proper investigative reporting (depth); (2) they are able to help define the public agenda through their reporting and to express their opinion (authorship); (3) they have impact on the polity, the economy or other fields they cover (influence) and (4) their journalistic knowledge is recognized by readers and by specialists (expertise). In practice, however, there are multiple obstacles that make Brazilian journalists hesitant about their contribution to knowledge, including intensified working conditions, the lack of plurality within the mainstream presses, and their informal methods for dealing with knowledge claims from other fields. This research reveals that Brazilian journalists have different understandings of the nature of knowledge in journalism. These understandings cluster around two distinct poles: an expert notion of knowledge associated with disciplinary boundaries, and a distinct conception associated with journalists’ capacity to mediate between jurisdictions. When journalists’ production is assessed from the former point of view, the informality of their methods is seen as undermining their knowledge credentials. By contrast, when journalists’ contribution is assessed from the latter point of view, their ‘interactional expertise’ comes to the fore.

scholarly journals The Humanities as Contradiction: Against the New Enclosures

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Christopher Breu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
Dialectical Tension ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Twenty First Century

This essay begins by surveying our current moment in the humanities, diagnosing the language of crisis that frames much of the discourse about them. It argues that the crisis is a manufactured economic one not a symbolic one. The problems with many recent proposals—such as the new aestheticism, surface reading, and postcritique—is that they attempt to solve an economic crisis on the level of symbolic capital. They try to save the humanities by redisciplining them and making them mirror various forms amateur inquiry. I describe these approaches as the new enclosures, attempts at returning the humanities to disciplinarity with the hopes that administrative and neoliberal forces will find what we do more palatable. Instead of attempting to appease such forces by being pliant and apolitical, we need a new workerist militancy (daring to be “bad workers” from the point of view of neoliberal managerial rhetorics) to combat the economic crisis produced by neoliberalism. Meanwhile, on the level of knowledge production, the humanities need to resist the demand to shrink the scope of their inquiry to the disciplinary. The humanities, at their best, have been interdisciplinary. They have foregrounded both the subject of the human and all the complex forces that shape, limit, and exist in relationship and contradiction with the human. The essay concludes by arguing that the humanities, to resist neoliberal symbolic logics, need to embrace both a critical humanism, and the crucial challenges to this humanism that go by the name of antihumanism and posthumanism. It is only by putting these three discourses in negative dialectical tension with each other that we can begin to imagine a reinvigorated humanities that can address the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Feminist Dilemmas: How to Talk About Gender-Based Violence in Relation to the Middle East?

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Nadje Al-Ali
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

The article charts my trajectories as a feminist activist/academic seeking to research, write and talk about gender-based violence in relation to the Middle East. More specifically, I am drawing on research and activism in relation to Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon to map the discursive, political and empirical challenges and complexities linked to scholarship and activism that is grounded in both feminist and anti-racist/anti-Islamophobic politics. While reflecting on my positionality, the article aims to challenge the binary of activism and academia as well as Western and Middle Eastern contexts in terms of knowledge production.

Mixed cobinary trees

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (09) ◽  
pp. 1850170
Author(s):  
Kiyoshi Igusa ◽  
Jonah Ostroff
Keyword(s):  
Short Proof ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Catalan Number ◽  
Binary Trees ◽  
Cluster Theory ◽  
Type Formula ◽  
Isomorphism Classes ◽  
Basic Cluster ◽  
Number Formula ◽  
Special Case

We develop basic cluster theory from an elementary point of view using a variation of binary trees which we call mixed cobinary trees (MCTs). We show that the number of isomorphism classes of such trees is given by the Catalan number [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is the number of internal nodes. We also consider the corresponding quiver [Formula: see text] of type [Formula: see text]. As a special case of more general known results about the relation between [Formula: see text]-vectors, representations of quivers and their semi-invariants, we explain the bijection between MCTs and the vertices of the generalized associahedron corresponding to the quiver [Formula: see text]. These results are extended to [Formula: see text]-clusters in the next paper. We give one application: a new short proof of a conjecture of Reineke using MCTs.

A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR MATRIX-BASED FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS WITH ITS APPLICATION TO IMAGE RECOGNITION

2008 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUIYU FENG ◽  
DAVID ZHANG ◽  
JIAN YANG ◽  
DEWEN HU
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Small Sample Sizes ◽  
Special Case

Recently proposed matrix-based methods, two-dimensional Principal Component Analysis (2DPCA), two-dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis (2DLDA) and two-dimensional Locality Preserving Projections (2DLPP) have been shown to be effective ways to avoid the problems of high dimensionality and small sample sizes that are associated with vector-based methods. In this paper, we propose a general theoretical framework for matrix-based feature extraction algorithms from the point of view of graph embedding. Our framework can be applied to extend two recently proposed vector-based algorithms, i.e. Unsupervised Discriminant Projection (UDP) and Marginal Fisher Analysis (MFA) algorithms, to their matrix-based versions. Further, our framework can also be used as a platform to generate new matrix-based feature extraction algorithms by designing meaningful graphs, e.g. two-dimensional Discriminant Embedding Analysis (2DDEA) in this paper. It is shown that 2DLDA is actually a special case of the 2DDEA method. Experiments on three publicly available image databases demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Our results fit into the scene for a better picture about the matrix-based feature extraction algorithms.

Determinacy-Choice, Stability-Change: Some Thoughts on a Contemporary Polemic in Political Theory

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel A. Almond
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Rapid Improvement ◽  
Potential Productivity ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Stability Change ◽  
Second World

A MOOD OF DISILLUSIONMENT APPEARS TO BE SWEEPING THE FIELD of comparative politics and political development. This comes after almost two decades of rather impressive accomplishment, both from a qualitative and quantitative point of view. From small beginnings in the first years after the second world war, there is now a quite impressive literature in this field. Each area of the world has something like a ‘five-foot shelf’ of monographic studies of political processes, patterns and developmental tendencies. Some of these shelves are smaller than others. The Latin American shelf, for example, has lagged in growth but is in process of rapid improvement. The Middle Eastern shelf leaves much to be desired, but even here there are signs of stirring and of potential productivity. In addition to these ‘area shelves’ which show increasing signs of cumulativeness, of drawing on each other for perspective and for hypotheses, there is a ‘super shelf’ of comparative and theoretical studies which draws upon the area shelves and which contributes frameworks, approaches and hypotheses for monographic studies.

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