Acknowledgments -- List of maps -- List of abbreviations -- Paradoxical invisibility : fortifying invisibility for empowerment in the face of disempowering structural invisibilities -- Open methods for researching hidden populations : epistemological and ethical issues -- Dissimulation : retaining minority identity while pretending to be part of the majority -- Alevi Bulgarian Trks' self-perceptions of the alevi ways : "the path is one; while practices are a thousand and one" -- Dissimilation and assimilation -- Conclusion -- Appendix a -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
In Managing Invisibility, Hande Sözer examines complicated invisibilities of Alevi Bulgarian Turks as a double-minority which faces structural and societal discrimination in Bulgaria and Turkey. The data for the book was gathered during 18 months of fieldwork in both settings