Intersections of Ethnicity, Economy and Gender in the Case of the Turkey-Georgia Borderlands

Intersections of Ethnicity Economy and Gender in the Case of the Turkey Georgia Borderlands Guest Lecture 26 05 2021 Research Factory B ORDERS IN MOTION Lecturer Dr Latife Aky z Berliner Institut f r empirische Integrations und Migrationsforschung BIM Humboldt Universit t zu Berlin Moderator Prof Dr Kira Kosnick Europa Universit t Viadrina Borderlands are two different spaces separated from each other by barbed wires security points and watchtowers as well as they are entities with people perpetuating the same lives on both sides The structure emerging on the edge of at least two states produces its own rules own institutions and own ways of living as well as it stays in between the effects of the political and economic rules of these states This structure is both strongly determined by sharp lines and rules and is uncertain and ambiguous so that it can be changed easily The relations established in this structure are imposing their own rules finding ways to cope with uncertainty varia