| Popis: |
The unprecedented mobility of people challenges the capacity of nation-states to address mixed societies at a time when states are declaring a commitment to nationalism and parochial interests at the expense of the cosmopolitan ethics of recognition of the Other. We engage with debates on diversity and radical cosmopolitanism, differentiating between tolerance, recognition, co-existence, and living together. In Turkey this has acquired new urgency due to the challenges of hosting 3.6 million Syrians. We argue that Turkey needs to move beyond ad hoc measures, shaped by a sense of hospitality, toward a model of governance based on a rights-based approach to the refugee issue. We analyze the key role that civil society actors play in generating shared spaces based on trust and solidarity but which need to be supported and extended by an enabling state. Several factors shape the bottom-up capacity of civil society to cultivate co-existence: a limiting discourse of hospitality, state-led integration processes, Othering processes, differences among civil society actors in terms of service-based versus grassroots approaches, and constraints imposed by donors. |
