The many faces of Turkish Odessa: Multiple alliances across the Black Sea

Vera Skvirskaja

doi:10.3167/fcl.2014.700105

The many faces of Turkish Odessa: Multiple alliances across the Black Sea

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Abstract

The article discusses regional territoriality by looking at the heterogeneous community of Turkish male migrants and the multiple alliances they establish in post-Soviet Odessa, Ukraine. In its public image, the city plays down ideas of urban continuities with the Ottoman past, but new relations between Turkish newcomers and various Turkic-speaking groups in the area both create different and overlapping “ecumenical communities” and actualize long-forgotten connections or marginal historical visions. These migrants also generate important links to the area through marriage and intimate relations with Slav women. I argue that alliances between Turkish migrants and Turkic-speaking minorities and local women not only allow them to make the city their own, but also create a distance from wider Odessan society.

Original language	English
Journal	Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Issue number	70
Pages (from-to)	49-63
Number of pages	15
ISSN	0920-1297
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2014.700105
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Faculty of Social Sciences
Black Sea
Ukraine
migration
Odessa
Regional Ethnography

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