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    Crossborder Marriages as a Path to Upward Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye
    (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2024) Coskun, Emel; Rittersberger-Tilic, Helga
    This paper focuses on migrant women's strategic intimacies in cross-border marriages in light of T & uuml;rkiye's new migration and citizenship regulations since the early 2000s. Based on in-depth interviews with 18 Kyrgyz women in 2021 and 2022, this paper offers different typologies of marriage related migration in order to gain a deeper understanding of marriage migration and migrant women's positions in these intimacies. It can be argued that cross-border marriages in T & uuml;rkiye are shaped by different factors, including the state's restrictions to access permits, stigmatisation of migrant women and local men's desire for sexual relationships on the one hand, women's desire for an upward social mobility and for emotional connection as well as social protection on the other. It is argued that women strategically bargain through their cultural capital such as education, professional skills, age, experience and hardworking in order to realise an upward social mobility. Regardless of their marriage status, women use their cultural capital to bargain with patriarchy and to resist a set of concrete constrains in a passive form as they embrace traditional gender roles.
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    Precarity and survival of migrants in Türkiye: An overview of the divide between migration policy and practice
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2023) Coskun, Emel; Dedeoglu, Saniye; Williams, Lucy
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    State restrictions and gender-based violence in cross-border marriages: The case of Kyrgyz women in Türkiye
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2023) Coskun, Emel; Budaichieva, Elvira
    This paper focuses on Kyrgyz women in cross-border marriages under Turkiye's increasingly tight legal requirements for marriage migration. Although the main intention of the policy change was to prevent marriages contracted to gain residency permits in Turkiye, strict regulations can have an adverse effect on migrant women's position. Based on in-depth interviews with 24 key informants including Kyrgyz women, public employees, lawyers and staff of the Kyrgyz Consulate, this paper argues that legal and social difficulties weaken women's position in cross-border marriages and render them vulnerable to male violence. Under the strict control, migrant women embrace traditional gendered roles such as becoming religious and a good housewife, having children as well as limiting their social relationships. Moreover, women do not seek official support against any male violence especially during the time of obligatory marriage period of three years to be able to apply for a citizenship.
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    Ugandan women and sex trafficking in Istanbul
    (Wiley, 2024) Coskun, Emel; Williams, Lucy
    This paper demonstrates how the social construction of gender shapes women's migration choices and post-migration experience using the example of Ugandan women migrants in Istanbul, T & uuml;rkiye. Building on an ethnographic case study, we reveal how Ugandan women negotiate and find agency within oppressive structures that force them into debt, into illegality, and limit their opportunities for safe and dignified work. Our discussion critiques international regulations - the Palermo Protocol - and local structures including the Istanbul Police and Turkish policy on migration and prostitution. We show the complexity of relationships that impact women's lives and show how institutions fail to protect women leaving them vulnerable to harassment and sexual violence. We reflect on the experience of women of colour in Istanbul, simultaneously visible on the street yet invisible in voice and agency. Our work highlights the importance of an intersectional lens in the study of migration, il/legality, workplace abuse and trafficking into prostitution. It has broad implications for understanding how gender, class and racialization define migrants' options for mobility and self-determination.