The quest for identity and belonging: an ethnographic account of Georgian Turkish associations
Journal: University of Birmingham Institutional Research Archive (University of Birmingham)
Year: 2019

This research explores the role of Georgian-Turkish associations in the formation of identity amongst citizens of Georgian descent in Turkey. It focuses on identity construction at the local, national and transnational levels and in the context of both the homeland (Turkey) and the ancestral homeland (Georgia). The thesis adopts an inductive, ethnographic approach to data collection and analysis, and was carried out with two associations in Istanbul. The first empirical chapter accounts for the