Learning as agency among the unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Turkey

Tibet, Eda Elif (7 July 2016). Learning as agency among the unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Turkey (Unpublished). In: Crossing Borders Conference. Transnational Cooperative and the Aegean University Lesvos, Greece. 7.-10.7.2016.

This research, intends to find out how young unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Turkey face educational barriers, deploy personal agencies and various forms of learning strategies as processes leading to securing mobile livelihoods. Agency will be looked at in terms of transformation and becoming out/of given contexts in times of great uncertainty. The data to be presented in this paper has been collected over a seven months of fieldwork period conducted in a state care facility (Child and Youth Support Center, ÇOGEM) for
unaccompanied minor asylum seekers placed in Istanbul and among the ex-minors. By
adopting storytelling as a methodology in collecting transnational biographies of education,
two life stories of different learning strategies will be narrated through the formation of a
participatory radio show programme that has taken place in the state care facility as part of
the research. By looking at the politics and provisions of the state’s education responses to
the unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Turkey, these data give new insights into
various learning strategies among the unaccompanied minor asylum seekers and their
interconnections to the current institutional and political frameworks and wider transnational shifting social realities.

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