Longing in Belonging

Longing in Belonging
Author: Suzan Ilcan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2002-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313010560

The mobilization of people, populations, and places—and the social interrelations of space and time, memory and longing, and the global and local—are uniquely analyzed in this fascinating study. Instead of viewing social and cultural relations through the lenses of rigid institutions, fixed territories, or rooted communities, Ilcan focuses on mobile sites to explore the cultural politics of settlement. This book examines the social relations of longing and belonging to be found in nation building, ethnographic practices, dwelling, and diasporas. Ilcan propels us into various dimensions of movement, as well as social relations in the fields of dispersion, transition, and displacement. Drawing on insights from cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology, she inquires into contemporary and critical issues on the movement of peoples. Transitional communities represent the tensions and risks confronting those compelled to leave home, or those for whom a sense of longing superseded any feeling of belonging. This book provides fresh insight into the placement, and displacement, of particular social groups, including guest workers, migrants, and immigrants. Ilcan covers the varieties of diasporic relations and the settlements they form, as well as the manifold ways in which they affect traditional practices of settlement. She considers the cultural, economic, and political implications of globalization, evoking the struggle in our places of habitation, and the strategies deployed to subvert our habits of settlement.

Precarious Hope

Precarious Hope
Author: Ayse Parla
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1503609448

There are more than 700,000 Bulgaristanlı migrants residing in Turkey. Immigrants from Bulgaria who are ethnically Turkish, they assume certain privileges because of these ethnic ties, yet access to citizenship remains dependent on the whims of those in power. Through vivid accounts of encounters with the police and state bureaucracy, of nostalgic memories of home and aspirations for a more secure life in Turkey, Precarious Hope explores the tensions between ethnic privilege and economic vulnerability and rethinks the limits of migrant belonging among those for whom it is intimated and promised—but never guaranteed. In contrast to the typical focus on despair, Ayşe Parla studies the hopefulness of migrants. Turkish immigration policies have worked in lockstep with national aspirations for ethnic, religious, and ideological conformity, offering Bulgaristanlı migrants an advantage over others. Their hope is the product of privilege and an act of dignity and perseverance. It is also a tool of the state, reproducing a migration regime that categorizes some as desirable and others as foreign and dispensable. Through the experiences of the Bulgaristanlı, Precarious Hope speaks to the global predicament in which increasing numbers of people are forced to manage both cultivation of hope and relentless anxiety within structures of inequality.

Precarious Hope

Precarious Hope
Author: Ayse Parla
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781503608108

There are more than 700,000 Bulgaristanlı migrants residing in Turkey. Immigrants from Bulgaria who are ethnically Turkish, they assume certain privileges because of these ethnic ties, yet access to citizenship remains dependent on the whims of those in power. Through vivid accounts of encounters with the police and state bureaucracy, of nostalgic memories of home and aspirations for a more secure life in Turkey, Precarious Hope explores the tensions between ethnic privilege and economic vulnerability and rethinks the limits of migrant belonging among those for whom it is intimated and promised--but never guaranteed. In contrast to the typical focus on despair, Ayşe Parla studies the hopefulness of migrants. Turkish immigration policies have worked in lockstep with national aspirations for ethnic, religious, and ideological conformity, offering Bulgaristanlı migrants an advantage over others. Their hope is the product of privilege and an act of dignity and perseverance. It is also a tool of the state, reproducing a migration regime that categorizes some as desirable and others as foreign and dispensable. Through the experiences of the Bulgaristanlı, Precarious Hope speaks to the global predicament in which increasing numbers of people are forced to manage both cultivation of hope and relentless anxiety within structures of inequality.

In Pursuit of Belonging

In Pursuit of Belonging
Author: Susan Beth Rottmann
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789202701

Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of Turkish migrants’ struggle for understanding, intimacy and appreciation when they return from Germany to their Turkish homeland. Drawing on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology, Rottmann conveys the struggle to forge an ethical life by relating the experiences of a second-generation German-Turkish woman named Leyla.

The Turkish-American Conundrum

The Turkish-American Conundrum
Author: Belma Ötüş Baskett
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1527531465

This collection of essays discusses various aspects of the experiences of Turkish immigrants in the United States, and of US expatriates in Turkey. It explores the predicament of the Turkish-American element on US soil, in a manner paralleling already existent disciplines such as Italian-American Studies and German-American Studies, and assembles disparate research on the subject. As such, it will serve to herald in print the launching of a new paradigm, Turkish-American Studies. The volume fits within transnational American Studies, but also develops its own approach, which is what constitutes its novelty.

Politics and Law in Turkish Migration

Politics and Law in Turkish Migration
Author: Ibrahim Sirkeci
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1910781991

Increasingly more scholars and analysts argue that migration controls are deemed to fail simply because of the dynamic nature of human mobility. Nevertheless, migration remains to be a hot topic on political agenda as well as a key area of legislation. Turkey has recently implemented some serious structural changes through a new law of migration and creation of a specialist central general directorate responsible for handling almost anything and everything about migrants and foreigners in the country. On the other hand, politics and political participation of the Turks abroad is part and parcel of the integration debates strongly shaping the mainstream politics of immigration countries in Europe and beyond. This book offers a number of research accounts investigating the political participation and integration, new legislations, and implications of policy and law on migration practices. CONTENT Introduction – Philip L. Martin and Ibrahim Sirkeci Chapter 1: Irregular Immigration in the EU Legal Framework: Where are the Human Rights? – Annalisa Morticelli and Dr Jessica Guth Chapter 2: The Making of Immigration Policies in Turkey: An analysis of the Law on Foreigners and International Protection Drafting Process – Deniz Eroğlu Chapter 3: The principle of non-refoulement a comparative analysis between Turkish national law and international refugee law – Doğa Elçin Chapter 4: To What Extent Are Migrant Workers’ Rights Positioned within the Discourse of Human Rights? – Süreyya Sönmez Efe Chapter 5: In the Nexus of Stigma or Prestige: Politicians with Migration-background – Devrimsel Deniz Nergiz Chapter 6: How Berlin’s local politicians of Turkish background perceive their access to party networks and ability to succeed? – Floris Vermeulen and Ayten Doğan Chapter 7: After the Hamburg Cell: the Integration Debate and Turkish-German Representation in Post-9/11 Media and Politics – Emily Joy Rothchild Chapter 8: Can Turks be Germans? – Symbolic Boundary Perception of Turkish Residents in Germany – Nils Witte Chapter 9: The Second Generation’s Discovery of Transnational Politics via Social Media – Necdet Coşkun Aldemir Chapter 10: Political integration of the German-Turkish youth in Berlin – Mine Karakuş Chapter 11: The role of Turkish community organisations in Berlin: Their role in Turkey-Germany and Turkey-European Union relations – Selcen Öner References

Migration from Turkey to Sweden

Migration from Turkey to Sweden
Author: Bahar Baser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1838608834

The `refugee crisis' and the recent rise of anti-immigration parties across Europe has prompted widespread debates about migration, integration and security on the continent. But the perspectives and experiences of immigrants in northern and western Europe have equal political significance for contemporary European societies. While Turkish migration to Europe has been a vital area of research, little scholarly attention has been paid to Turkish migration to specifically Sweden, which has a mix of religious and ethnic groups from Turkey and where now well over 100,000 Swedes have Turkish origins. This book examines immigration from Turkey to Sweden from its beginnings in the mid-1960s, when the recruitment of workers was needed to satisfy the expanding industrial economy. It traces the impact of Sweden's economic downturn, and the effects of the 1971 Turkish military intervention and the 1980 military coup, after which asylum seekers - mostly Assyrian Christians and Kurds - sought refuge in Sweden. Contributors explore how the patterns of labour migration and interactions with Swedish society impacted the social and political attitudes of these different communities, their sense of belonging, and diasporic activism. The book also investigates issues of integration, return migration, transnational ties, external voting and citizenship rights. Through the detailed analysis of migration to Sweden and emigration from Turkey, this book sheds new light on the situation of migrants in Europe.

Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany

Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany
Author: Sarah Thomsen Vierra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108427308

Provides a rich examination of how Turkish immigrants and their children created spaces of belonging in West German society.

Turkey as a Simulated Country

Turkey as a Simulated Country
Author: Sabiha Çimen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2019
Genre: Turkey
ISBN: 9781527518216

Turkeys recent history is filled with stories of immigration. With the number of immigrants exceeding three million, the Syrians who came to Turkey after the civil war in their country could be considered Turkeys largest experience with migration. This book provides a broad overview of the politics of urbanism within the exceptional state, looking at what cannot be sacrificed but can be killed, leaving biopolitics as an escape route, with original and authentic elements included. This book analyses the cultural meaning of individual life, presenting the results of a field survey. This study allows us to read belonging, and the possessive ties of the nostalgic identity within the present time, represented by photography as a rupture in the continuity of history, and provides a sociological and ontological reading of the image. Incorporating the meanings of visual images into the sociological field research, it reveals the tentative expressions of reality itself, with while coding the image of the external world.