ABSTRACT
The postmodern approach to the border, the border regions are defined as third space, and those living in this spatiality are viewed through identity construction processes with their specific cultures. Thus, concepts such as gender ethnicity, race, and sexual identities become more salient in the social sciences and in the border studies. Border as a space of encounter for people of different culture, ethnicity, race, and religion creates a dynamic milieu and hence becomes a very fertile ground for the intersectionalist studies. The accounts of how the phenomenon of the border economy appeared in Hopa and what kind of developmental trajectory it followed, along with its condition today, is mostly accomplished by the interviews conducted with the locals. In terms of gender relations in Hopa, the border economy created much more oppression for all women, but they are oppressed differently, and these differences are based on the participation of women in the border economy and their ethnicity.
