ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the modalities of violence in relation to intersecting social identities in Syrian refugees’ lives in Turkey. Including social identities, such as gender, sex, age and sexual orientation, makes the perspective on gendered violence broader than, for example, the traditional criminological focus on physical violence.
Intersectionality – how the population’s various sociopolitical identities intersect – is the framework chosen to investigate the range of violence experienced. The empirical material was derived from two fieldwork projects conducted in Istanbul in 2018–2020. Syrian refugees and staff, social workers and psychologists in non-governmental organisation (NGOs) there were interviewed. Once the data collection was completed, coding and thematic analysis of the material clarified the intersecting, multifaceted forms of violence. This chapter emphasises that differing forms of violence exist in a continuum in the lives of Syrian refugees in Turkey and explores how the violence is expressed, experienced and embodied.
