Making home: the role of objects in Syrian refugees' lives in Turkey

Gündüz S.

SIEF2025: Unwriting, Aberdeen, İngiltere, 3 - 06 Haziran 2025, ss.1-2, (Özet Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Aberdeen
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İngiltere
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-2
  • Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this paper, I focus on home-making practices among Syrian immigrants in Turkey. I argue that objects play a central role in the home-making practices of displaced people, emphasizing just how vital "home" is to those who have been uprooted. While the physical home itself is not portable, objects—and the emotions and memories attached to them—are. Infused with personal meanings, objects possess a transformative power; they "create magic" by helping people build a sense of home in an unfamiliar place.