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- Title
Between Here and Almost There: The Greek–Turkish Border as a Place of Passage.
- Authors
Dilaver, Özge; Redclift, Victoria
- Abstract
This article studies the life-stories and identity narratives of Turks of Western Thrace (Greece) focusing on the role of the Turkish–Greek border and its changing permeability. It suggests that people who have strong attachments to both sides of a national border experience spatial liminality and the border is a place of passage between not only territories, but also lived identities. For young Turks of Western Thrace, travelling to Turkey to work or study is an established strategy that is intertwined with major life events. Drawing on ride-along interviews and focusing on five participants, who travelled to Turkey during the Cyprus crisis, the article identifies the disciplinary power of bordering on identities and life-stories. By examining how different individuals dealt with this power, and how their circumstances affected the outcomes, it explores the tensions between agency and structure, state power and resistance, and categorisation and liminality during life-planning and identity construction.
- Subjects
GREECE-Turkey relations; GROUP identity; SOCIAL structure; NATIONALISM; BORDERLANDS
- Publication
Sociology, 2024, Vol 58, Issue 3, p535
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00380385231194875