Semra Somersan
Dept. of Sociology, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
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Ingår i: Inter: A European Cultural Studies : Conference in Sweden 11-13 June 2007
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 25:71, s. 721-732
Publicerad: 2007-12-03
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (tryckt), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper will focus on an aspect of an ongoing research in Sulukule; Istanbul; to try to understand how and why many Roma living in this neighbourhood disclaim their ethnic identity; emphasizing instead; their religious identity.
Sulukule is the oldest and most continuous Roma settlement in this part of the world according to historians; a neighbourhood along the historical Byzantine city walls where a group of Roma lived over the centuries; a significant proportion of whom had made a profession of playing; singing and dancing to the middle classes in Istanbul.
Though largely peripheral to the life of the city within whose borders they lived and worked; and largely ignored if not discriminated against by the city dwellers; occasionally they “attracted the attention” of the local politicians; the military and/or the municipalities.
Here I will focus on the dynamics of identity formation processes among Sulukule Roma; and the exchanging of Roma-“Gypsy” for “Moslem” identity while simultaneously deliberating on why religious belonging; fairly new though it may be; overrides ethnicit
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