The Solitary Female Refugees and the Widows' Asylum (Kırmızı Kışla) in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul

This article examines the short-lived asylum, Kırmızı Kışla (Red Barracks), established to offer shelter and protection to the women forced to migrate to the Ottoman capital as the result of the 1877-78 Russo-Ottoman War. The main Ottoman policy toward the refugees was to settle them in the underpop...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. - Indiana University Press, 2019. - 6(2019), 2, Seite 73-90
1. Verfasser: Balsoy, Gülhan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
Schlagworte:widowhood widows' asylum refugee women gender and destitution Social sciences Biological sciences Behavioral sciences History Economics