This article examines social relations for Syrian women in Istanbul by focusing on micro-level lived relationships of hospitality. Through an ethnographic, qualitative approach to key sites of encounter, the article explores how migrants navigate a public milieu in which hospitality has partially been taken away from the local community’s moral oversight in a context of a national political discourse on hospitality. We also analyze ‘hosting’ and ‘guesting’ as mutually negotiated and contested practices. This study highlights the agency and resistance strategies of Syrian women to their ‘differential inclusion’ into Turkish society. It examines how they navigate (in)hospitality and also unpacks the use of virtuous dimensions of hospitality (1) to reverse discriminatory ethnic and class discourses and renegotiate subjectivities that are imposed upon them as ‘guests’; (2) to bring forward perceived cultural similarities between Syria and Turkey; and (3) to revalorize their roles and status in their families. The contribution of this study is to focus on hospitality as a means of theorizing how women navigate complex and conflicting, familiar and yet also new, social ecologies as they make themselves at home.

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“我们总是为游客敞开大门”——热情好客是伊斯坦布尔难民妇女的家政策略

本文通过关注微观层面的热情好客关系来研究伊斯坦布尔叙利亚妇女的社会关系。通过对关键相遇地点的人种学、定性方法，本文探讨了移民如何在一个公共环境中驾驭，在这个公共环境中，热情好客已部分脱离当地社区的道德监督，在全国性的热情好客政治话语背景下。我们还将“主持”和“招待”作为相互协商和竞争的做法进行分析。这项研究强调了叙利亚妇女对她们“差异融入”土耳其社会的代理和抵抗策略。它研究了他们如何驾驭（在）热情好客，并揭示了如何利用热情好客的道德维度（1）扭转歧视性的种族和阶级话语，并重新协商强加给他们作为“客人”的主观性；(2) 提出叙利亚和土耳其之间感知到的文化相似性；(3) 重新评估他们在家庭中的角色和地位。本研究的贡献在于将热情好客作为一种理论化手段，以理论化女性在居家时如何驾驭复杂、冲突、熟悉但又新奇的社会生态。