From Liminality to Inclusion: Cooperatives as Catalysts for Refugee Women’s Identity Work
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2023
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Springer International Publishing
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This study examines how cooperatives as alternative organizational forms enable individuals to cope with their indeterminate liminality through identity work. I adopt the lens of identity work as self-work to analyze how individuals engage with cooperatives in ways that allow them to reconstruct their identities and ultimately overcome their social exclusion. Based on a case study of a refugee women’s cooperative in Turkey, I reveal that the cooperative form has facilitated two identity work practices: associating with particular groups and reclaiming existence. These identity work practices were enabled by specific resources and the situatedness of the cooperative. The findings demonstrate that organizations could play a transformative role in reintegrating marginalized groups into communities and more specifically highlight the role of cooperatives in advancing collective well-being in an inclusive manner. By revealing how the organizational context surrounding liminal individuals influences their identity work, I contribute to liminality research in organization studies and the relational dimension of identity work of forcibly displaced people in extreme contexts. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.
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Cooperative; Identity work; Liminality; Refugee women; Turkey
