Ev algısı: Bayramtepe İstanbul'dakiyle Suriyeli Kürt mülteciler

This study is about the notion of home among the Kurdish refugees who had migrated from Syria to Bayramtepe, Istanbul. The research aims to reveal the moments where the refugees are active agents in their experiences of displacement. Using the refugees' present notions of home as a tool, the study probes into the ways the refugees make sense of their lives in exile and their reactions to the condition of being a refugee. In fact, the present notion of home is evidently not only related to the present home-making process in exile but also to the nostalgic feelings, individual and collective memories about the past homes, and hopes, dreams and desires for the future home imaginaries. Inspired by The focus is on the Kurdish refugees' formation of home at the present time through their use of ethnic identity as well as the dynamics of the locality they live in. With these intentions, the findings of the fieldwork in Bayramtepe neigh-borhood in which the majority of inhabitants are Kurdish people who were forcibly displaced from southeastern Turkey in the 1990s suggest that in the time of forced mi-gration Syrian Kurds' different feelings about home and various home territories is changing. Different notions of home sometimes conflict with each other due mainly to the Kurds' lack of attachment to a fixed territory which is developed through citizen-ship bonds in the world of nation-states.