ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the ways in which border people and Syrian refugees navigate the border city of Antakya, encounter each other, understand and confront the state and its institutions. By explaining the role that sectarian and nationalist genealogy of Turkish migration regime and Syria policies play, it demonstrates how the issue of forced migration is not isolated from the state effects and regional political struggles, particularly at the Turkish-Syrian border. The book discusses the Turkification process, colonial treachery, and historical attempt to homogenize this border city. These processes have exacerbated the re-surfacing of historically informed divisions in the wake of the Syrian crisis. The ambiguity of the migration regime in Turkey and Turkish government’s approach to the Syrian civil war directly impacted Syrian refugees in Turkey and their reception in different cities.
