@article{article_1747484, title={Syrian Child Labor in Southeastern Anatolia within the Context of the Transition from Productive Extended Families to Consumptive Nuclear Families}, journal={İçtimaiyat}, pages={161–177}, year={2025}, DOI={10.33709/ictimaiyat.1747484}, author={Öner, Rıdvan}, keywords={Geniş Aile, Çekirdek Aile, Göç, Çocuk İşçiliği, Yeniden Üretim}, abstract={This study goes beyond explaining Syrian migrant child labor solely in terms of economic deprivation and offers a multi-layered analysis within the framework of transformation in the family structure, social reproduction processes and the subjectivity of childhood. Child labor is addressed not only as a phenomenon that emerges in Syrian migrant families out of concern for livelihood, but also as a historical and cultural practice that gains meaning through intra-family responsibility relations, cultural norms and perceptions of childhood. In the study, the inclusion of children in the labor market is evaluated both as a result of a structural necessity and as a reproduction of historical norms within the family. While child labor is evaluated as an element of social reproduction, it is also examined as a field of agent where children actively participate in this process and reposition themselves. In this context, the study takes a holistic approach to Syrian child labor in Southeastern Anatolia at the intersection of migration, family and class dynamics. This study is literature review that various data, statistics and the results obtained from similar studies written on the subject. In addition to these, the researcher has worked as a humanitarian aid worker in various non-governmental organizations in Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Mardin and has blended the cases, events and situations he has witnessed in the last decade with the content of the study with a reflexive method.}, number={Aile Özel Sayısı}, publisher={Esengül Kara}