Istanbul has undergone a significant securitization process in recent years. This process has transformed the spatial organization of the city and brought with it the expanded use of control devices in everyday life. This ...

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the formation and nature of the elite professional class in Kayseri, a newly emergent upper class group triggered by industrialization and urbanization of educated, occupational ...

This study is based upon a group of forced Kurdish migrants whose "social exclusion" is generally suggested to have arrived at an extent in which the forced migrants are both out of the labor market and grassroots politics. ...

The neo-liberal economic transformation that was initiated in post-1980s Turkey has produced a Turkey in the 2000s that has been integrated to the global economy through processes such as the liberalization of the markets, ...