Exhausted Patients: Racialized Reproductive Experiences in Türkiye

Abstract This article demonstrates how women living in a politically unstable environment experience and negotiate politics of reproduction in a society within which their ethnic identity significantly shapes their position in the nation. Taking a cue from these women’s frequent use of the term “exhausted” to describe their reproductive experiences in Türkiye, this article analyzes the stratification of race, ethnicity, and reproduction in Türkiye. Using a long-term and multi-sited ethnographic