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Youth Responses to State-Manufactured Diaspora Mobilization: Turkey's Diaspora Governance and the Politics of Selective Engagement (2024)
Journal Article
Baser, B., & Bocu, G. (2024). Youth Responses to State-Manufactured Diaspora Mobilization: Turkey's Diaspora Governance and the Politics of Selective Engagement. Globalizations, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2306724

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has implemented transnational policies to strengthen ties among diaspora youth in Europe with Turkey. However, these policies have been highly selective and geared towards regime-loyal groups in the... Read More about Youth Responses to State-Manufactured Diaspora Mobilization: Turkey's Diaspora Governance and the Politics of Selective Engagement.

Inherited Traumas in Diaspora: Postmemory, Past-presencing and Mobilisation of Second-Generation Kurds in Europe (2023)
Journal Article
Baser, B., & Toivanen, M. H. (2024). Inherited Traumas in Diaspora: Postmemory, Past-presencing and Mobilisation of Second-Generation Kurds in Europe. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47(2), 297-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2261288

This article examines the way in which conflict-generated diasporas pass on collective memories of a violent past onto the next generation. It contributes to uncovering the intergenerational memory transmission patterns in the diaspora by examining h... Read More about Inherited Traumas in Diaspora: Postmemory, Past-presencing and Mobilisation of Second-Generation Kurds in Europe.

An Exodus from Turkey: Tales of Migration and Exile (2023)
Book
Erdi Öztürk, A., & Baser, B. (2023). An Exodus from Turkey: Tales of Migration and Exile. Edinburgh University Press

Examines the current wave of migration from Turkey through the experiences of 21 public figures in exile
Features interviews with 21 Turkish public figures: Barbaros Sansal; Bulent Somay; Can Dundar; Deniz (nickname); Engin Sustam; Eser Karakas; Fat... Read More about An Exodus from Turkey: Tales of Migration and Exile.

Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects (2023)
Journal Article
Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu, E., Vreÿ, F., & Baser, B. (2023). Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 26(3), 289-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236514

Turkey's presence in Africa has experienced significant growth over the last two decades. In recent years, Turkey's expanding African outreach has transformed media narratives and generated a surge of scholarly studies on Turkey's involvement in Afri... Read More about Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects.

Pathways to Conflict Transportation and Autonomisation: The Armenian Diaspora and the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh (2023)
Journal Article
Féron, É., & Baser, B. (2023). Pathways to Conflict Transportation and Autonomisation: The Armenian Diaspora and the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Ethnopolitics, https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2023.2199601

Since its inception the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has generated multiple narratives in the region itself, in Armenia and Azerbaijan, and in the concerned diasporas. The war that occurred in 2020 engendered high levels of diasporic mobilisation, but i... Read More about Pathways to Conflict Transportation and Autonomisation: The Armenian Diaspora and the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Collective Memory in Post-Genocide Societies: Rethinking Enduring Trauma and Resilience in Halabja (2023)
Journal Article
Karim, H. F., & Baser, B. (2023). Collective Memory in Post-Genocide Societies: Rethinking Enduring Trauma and Resilience in Halabja. Review of Middle East Studies, 56(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2022.25

This article investigates the collective memory that emerged as a result of the chemical attack on Halabja, on March 16, 1988. In light of discussions that deal with memory and reconciliation in post-genocide societies, we look at how collective memo... Read More about Collective Memory in Post-Genocide Societies: Rethinking Enduring Trauma and Resilience in Halabja.

Transnational conflicts, belongings, and social interactions (2022)
Report
Baser, B., Sandal-Önal, E., Bayad, A., Can Zırh, B., Duzen, N. E., Zick, A., & Ozturk, A. E. (2022). Transnational conflicts, belongings, and social interactions. [No known commissioning body]

The present paper is an edited collection of manuscripts produced out of an online panel organized by the conveners on 1 December 2021 under the same title: Transnational conflicts, belongings, and social interactions. It was a part of the conference... Read More about Transnational conflicts, belongings, and social interactions.

From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia (2022)
Journal Article
Baser, B., & Ozturk, A. E. (2022). From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia. Middle East Critique, 31(4), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2022.2132193

The authoritarian turn in Turkey compelled many citizens to change life trajectories which included extreme majors such as migration and exile. Thousands of people left Turkey in the last decade, this recent wave constituting one of the largest Turki... Read More about From Exit to Voice: Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia.

Transnational Mobilization of Future Generations by Non-Democratic Home States: Turkey’s Diaspora Youth between Empowerment and Co-optation (2022)
Journal Article
Böcü, G., & Baser, B. (2024). Transnational Mobilization of Future Generations by Non-Democratic Home States: Turkey’s Diaspora Youth between Empowerment and Co-optation. Ethnopolitics, 23(1), 34-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2022.2101758

While many aspects of state-diaspora relations have been explored, the role that youth play in state-led diaspora outreach remains under-researched in the literature. Democratic and nondemocratic states alike, however, actively target diaspora youth... Read More about Transnational Mobilization of Future Generations by Non-Democratic Home States: Turkey’s Diaspora Youth between Empowerment and Co-optation.

Revisiting Legacies of Anfal and Reconsidering Genocide in the Middle East Today: Collective Memory, Victimhood, Resilience, and Enduring Trauma (2022)
Journal Article
Sadiq, I., Baser, B., & McLoughlin, S. (2022). Revisiting Legacies of Anfal and Reconsidering Genocide in the Middle East Today: Collective Memory, Victimhood, Resilience, and Enduring Trauma. Review of Middle East Studies, 56(1), 4-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2023.3

Since the end of World War I, the people of the Middle East have lived – from Turkey to Iraq – in a world created by Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Georges Clemenceau. From the outset, the victorious powers of the War, especially Wilson, pai... Read More about Revisiting Legacies of Anfal and Reconsidering Genocide in the Middle East Today: Collective Memory, Victimhood, Resilience, and Enduring Trauma.

The transnational politics of religion: Turkey's Diyanet, Islamic communities and beyond (2022)
Journal Article
Öztürk, A. E., & Baser, B. (2022). The transnational politics of religion: Turkey's Diyanet, Islamic communities and beyond. Turkish Studies, 23(5), 701-721. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2068414

The article builds on current academic debates pertaining to the use of religion in global politics. By examining how and why religion is used as a tool for foreign policy aims as well as for perpetuating a state’s identity and institutional capacity... Read More about The transnational politics of religion: Turkey's Diyanet, Islamic communities and beyond.

Diasporas, Development and the Second Generation (2022)
Book Chapter
Toivanen, M., & Baser, B. (2022). Diasporas, Development and the Second Generation. In L. Kennedy (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy (366-378). Routledge

The new millennium has witnessed the proliferation of scholarship and research projects focusing on the nexus of migration and development (M&D). The dominant tendency in M&D research has been to assess the impact of diaspora’s involvement in homelan... Read More about Diasporas, Development and the Second Generation.

"They Hear Us but They Do not Listen to Us”: Youth Narratives on Hope and Despair in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (2021)
Journal Article
Baser, B., & Fazil, S. (2022). "They Hear Us but They Do not Listen to Us”: Youth Narratives on Hope and Despair in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. International journal of conflict and violence, 16, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.11576/ijcv-5826

Most of the recent academic literature has focused on the macro politics of the Kurdish situation within Iraq and there is little scholarship about the younger generation of Kurds coming of age during the autonomous Kurdish rule. Unlike their forebea... Read More about "They Hear Us but They Do not Listen to Us”: Youth Narratives on Hope and Despair in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Once A Diaspora, Always A Diaspora? The Ethnic, Cultural and Political Mobilization of Kurdistani Jews in Israel (2021)
Journal Article
Baser, B., & Atlas, D. (2021). Once A Diaspora, Always A Diaspora? The Ethnic, Cultural and Political Mobilization of Kurdistani Jews in Israel. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 22(3-4), 302-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2021.1975111

This paper examines the experiences of Kurdistani Jews who were airlifted to Israel from Iraq in the early 1950s with the Operations Ezra and Nehemiah. The article seeks to answer questions regarding what transnational ties Kurdistani Jews have with... Read More about Once A Diaspora, Always A Diaspora? The Ethnic, Cultural and Political Mobilization of Kurdistani Jews in Israel.

Host state reactions to home state diaspora engagement policies: Rethinking state sovereignty and limits of diaspora governance (2021)
Journal Article
Baser, B., & Féron, É. (2022). Host state reactions to home state diaspora engagement policies: Rethinking state sovereignty and limits of diaspora governance. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 22(2), 226-241. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12341

During the last few decades, institutions, policies, and other state-sponsored mechanisms linking home states and diasporas have expanded well beyond traditional areas. Numerous states have established diaspora engagement policies and institutions to... Read More about Host state reactions to home state diaspora engagement policies: Rethinking state sovereignty and limits of diaspora governance.