عنوان

Trajectories of Belonging: Literacies and Intersectionality in the Mobile Phone and Home Building Practices of Syrian Refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

شماره

TL57240

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Trajectories of Belonging: Literacies and Intersectionality in the Mobile Phone and Home Building Practices of Syrian Refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Hayes, Jordan Clarke

نام ساير پديدآوران

Szanta, Edith

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Pittsburgh

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

متن يادداشت

345 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Pittsburgh

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

This dissertation responds to Syrian nationals' stories of displacement and settlement. Within these accounts, people contend with forced migration through language, personal networks, and technology. A sociomaterial theory of literacy recognizes the way in which these interviewees sought safety and belonging while accessing concrete systems in order to achieve material effects such as mobility and shelter. This dissertation's case studies pertaining to mobile devices and refugee homes contribute to an infrastructural understanding of literacies as semiotic, social, affective, and material practices bearing an affordant and epistemically generative relation to physical infrastructures. The project's interviewees used 2G communication infrastructures while travelling from Syria to Iraq and generated political readings of the powerful actors curating these infrastructures. These literate practices were motivated by dynamic emotional investments, which I read through the concept of belonging, a process of felt affiliation to people, places, and identities. By viewing belonging in terms of trajectories, I aim to suggest the rise and fall of emotional connection amid processual time and shifts in location. Expressions of belonging revealed that the overwhelming majority of the project's interview participants identify as Kurds, and that they anticipated feeling at home in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). They were generally welcomed, yet a combination of factors tended to introduce vicissitudes into this feeling of belonging, including tensions between the refugee and host communities. The interviews gathered here suggest that many Kurdish-identifying interviewees experienced nuanced intersectional vulnerabilities co-constituted not only by Kurdish identity but also by language and dialect, social class, gender expression, Syrian origin, and documentary status. Situated intersectionality offers a framework for engaging non-Western categories of belonging and a social justice-oriented logic for articulating historical and political contexts with qualitative findings. Most importantly, it leads here to the disruption of mono-categorical claims about the community under discussion, including the Turkish state's frequent justification of military aggression in the region through the reduction of all Kurds to the figure of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist. In this way, this dissertation cultivates an orientation of transnational solidarity with the Kurdish-identifying Syrian asylum seekers living in the KRI.

اصطلاح موضوعی

Communication

اصطلاح موضوعی

Epistemology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Human rights

اصطلاح موضوعی

Intersectionality

اصطلاح موضوعی

Literacy

اصطلاح موضوعی

Migration

اصطلاح موضوعی

Observatories

اصطلاح موضوعی

Refugees

اصطلاح موضوعی

Smartphones

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences

اصطلاح موضوعی

Society

اصطلاح موضوعی

Transnationalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Trends

اصطلاح موضوعی

Writers

اصطلاح موضوعی

Writing

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hayes, Jordan Clarke

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Szanta, Edith

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Pittsburgh

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y