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Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania

Cilt: 13 Sayı: 3 12 Haziran 2026
  • Samig Ibayev
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Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania

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This article examines why women and men within the same ethnographic field use the concept of freedom to describe materially different experiences. Drawing on nine months of fieldwork conducted in two Lithuanian student dormitories, sixteen in-depth interviews, and more than two hundred and forty hours of participant observation among Azerbaijani and Turkish student migrants, I argue that women in this corpus describe a form of freedom that is bodily, sartorial, ambient, and morally unobserved. Men, by contrast, more often describe a freedom that is political, mobile, rights-based, and associated with the withdrawal of the state as a source of everyday constraint. The findings further suggest that this distinction cannot be explained by biological gender alone. A queer male participant whose pre-migration life had been organised through the same architecture of moral observation that shaped the lives of the women participants described freedom in terms that closely resembled the women’s accounts. The pattern corresponds to what I term the regulating gaze: the cumulative attention of family members, neighbours, kin networks, and small-scale moral discourse under which participants lived prior to migration. Situated at the intersection of the anthropology of freedom and scholarship on gendered transnational migration, the article proposes the regulating gaze as a heuristic that enables researchers to examine gendered experiences of migration without reducing explanation to gender alone.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Alan Eğitimleri (Diğer)

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Yayımlanma Tarihi

12 Haziran 2026

Gönderilme Tarihi

20 Ocak 2026

Kabul Tarihi

10 Haziran 2026

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2026 Cilt: 13 Sayı: 3

Kaynak Göster

APA
Ibayev, S. (2026). Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi, 13(3), 1-16. https://izlik.org/JA33JM92SZ
AMA
1.Ibayev S. Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania. ATDD. 2026;13(3):1-16. https://izlik.org/JA33JM92SZ
Chicago
Ibayev, Samig. 2026. “Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania”. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi 13 (3): 1-16. https://izlik.org/JA33JM92SZ.
EndNote
Ibayev S (01 Haziran 2026) Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi 13 3 1–16.
IEEE
[1]S. Ibayev, “Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania”, ATDD, c. 13, sy 3, ss. 1–16, Haz. 2026, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA33JM92SZ
ISNAD
Ibayev, Samig. “Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania”. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi 13/3 (01 Haziran 2026): 1-16. https://izlik.org/JA33JM92SZ.
JAMA
1.Ibayev S. Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania. ATDD. 2026;13:1–16.
MLA
Ibayev, Samig. “Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania”. Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi, c. 13, sy 3, Haziran 2026, ss. 1-16, https://izlik.org/JA33JM92SZ.
Vancouver
1.Samig Ibayev. Freedom, Gender, and the Regulating Gaze among Student Migrants: The Case of Azerbaijani and Turkish Student Migrants in Lithuania. ATDD [Internet]. 01 Haziran 2026;13(3):1-16. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA33JM92SZ

 

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