Çokdillilik ve kimlik müzakeresi:İstanbul'daki Genç Suriyeli Kadınlar

This study examines how multilingual Syrian migrant women construct and negotiate identities through their use of Arabic, Turkish, and English as socially and ideologically charged resources. Adopting a linguistic-ethnographic approach, it draws on participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and audio-recordings of spontaneous interactions with three university-educated, young Syrian women residing in Istanbul. Combining fine-grained linguistic analysis with a scalar framework, the research explores identity negotiations across sociohistorical, ontogenetic, meso-level, and microgenetic timescales. The analysis demonstrates how participants mobilize their multilingual repertoires not only for communication but also as indexical means of positioning themselves within shifting structures of belonging, legitimacy, and power. Findings reveal a pervasive ambivalence: Turkish represents both opportunity and exclusion, Arabic serves as a source of intimacy yet a marker of stigma, and English carries symbolic prestige despite its limited local utility. These negotiations are further shaped by intersecting factors such as gender, class, migration status, educational background, and dominant language ideologies. By situating participants' discursive linguistic and identity practices within broader sociopolitical and historical contexts, this study shows how multilingualism functions simultaneously as a resource for agency and a site of constraint in a monolingually oriented nation-state. In so doing, it contributes to critical sociolinguistic research on multilingualism and identity in migratory contexts.