Our new report, Art, Gender and Displacement, explores how Istanbul became a space for care, political expression, collective visibility, and solidarity among migrant artists navigating gendered precarity and displacement.
Through performance, music, comedy, visual art, and object-based storytelling, the report shows how artistic practice can turn memory into testimony, and visibility into a claim for dignity and freedom.
The present research was undertaken to address the need for comprehensive data on the social integration or cohesion of migrants in Turkey. It discusses the findings of the quantitative and qualitative research in detail in subsequent sections.
In its new study, our project partner SÜDWIND Institute documents problems in Turkish small enterprises in the leather sector. In the summer of 2021, workers and employers who produce leather, shoes, belts or bags in Turkey were interviewed.
The results of the study are based on field visits where in-depth interviews took place with 370 individuals to verify the presence of the five basic parameters of ghettoization: i) isolated area, ii) residential segregation, iii) homogeneous relations, iv) social exclusion, and v) population density, which are present in both Fatih and Sultangazi, effectively turning certain areas within the districts into post-war ghettos.
