Samer SharaniSabanci University · Department of Arts and Social Science
Samer Sharani
Master of Arts
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Introduction
Home return, Ontological Security, Identity, Agonism, Civil War
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Publication (1)
Syrian refugees in Turkey have three alternatives: staying in Turkey, moving
to Europe, or returning home. This study sought to probe into how Syrian
refugees accomplish their intentions about these three alternatives.
By using a theory-building method, synthesizing different theoretical
frameworks on home return—as a wide theme—this study suggests...
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Epistemologically, scientific realism is (say, mainly) based on the idea that we generate theoretical entities to understand, describe, and discover a structure in the reality; these entities are unobservable, yet they are real, they exist independently from our research and our mind. In other words, these entities are not merely instruments to discover reality; they are real (see Alexander Wendt, for example among others). However, for critical realism (e.g., Roy Bhaskar) this point is not clear for me: Do theoretical entities we generate to understand the "structured reality" have their ontological-real existence independently from our mind? are they real, not merely instruments to understand reality?
thanks in advance
