2019/12/17 by Shyamal Kataria · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Turkey's Politics and Society #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
paper · doi:10.1080/14608944.2019.1662386
openalex publication_date 2019/12/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/03/17
The term ‘refugee’ – defined as someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war or violence – carries with it many connotations, ranging from ‘victim’, ‘helpless’, ‘destitute’, on the sympathetic side, to a ‘societal burden’ or ‘bogus’ on the more cynical. In this vein, the link between refugees and the phenomenon known as ethno-national conflict, for the most part, seems a clear one – principally that refugees are the victims, or by-products, of ethno-national conflict in their homelands. This linkage is by no means a controversial one, nor one that this paper seeks to dispute. Rather, what this paper sets out to do is convey that the relationship between refugees and ethno-national conflict is by no means one-directional, by demonstrating that the arrival of refugees, specifically those who had faced ethnic persecution in their homelands, actually generates, under certain conditions, subsequent ethno-national conflict.