Turkish Berlin

Author : Christine Barwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317053774

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Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice by Christine Barwick Pdf

What are the consequences of staying in or moving out of a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhood? In European urban sociology, research has mostly focused either on lower class ethnic minorities, or on white ethnic majority middle classes. By contrast, studies on upwardly mobile ethnic minorities are scarce, a gap that this book fills by looking at upwardly mobile Turkish-Germans living in Berlin. Those Turkish-Germans in Berlin, who decide to move out of a low status neighbourhood, mostly in order to find a better educational infrastructure for their children, show various strategies to keep ties back to their old neighbourhood. Moreover, the movers now living in neighbourhoods with a high share of native-German residents, where they stand out as the other, keep ties to other people with a Turkish background, not only through socializing with co-ethnics, but also through various forms of voluntary involvement. Hence, a move presents a spatial withdrawal from a socioeconomically weak and ethnically diverse neighbourhood, but it does not imply that this neighbourhood no longer plays a role in Turkish-Germans’ daily practices or as somewhere with which to continuously identify. Barwick’s sophisticated study shows that moving and staying are both active decisions and they both have positive and negative consequences. Thus, movers and stayers alike develop coping strategies for their respective situation, and develop particular daily practices and forms of identification with place.

Author : Annika Marlen Hinze
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816685547

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Turkish Berlin by Annika Marlen Hinze Pdf

The integration of immigrants into a larger society begins at the local level. Turkish Berlin reveals how integration has been experienced by second-generation Turkish immigrant women in two neighborhoods in Berlin, Germany. While the neighborhoods are similar demographically, the lived experience of the residents is surprisingly different. Informed by first-person interviews with both public officials and immigrants, Annika Marlen Hinze makes clear that local integration policies—often created by officials who have little or no contact with immigrants—have significant effects on the assimilation of outsiders into a community and a society. Focusing on the Turkish neighborhoods of Kreuzberg and Neukölln, Hinze shows how a combination of local policy making and grassroots organizing have contributed to one neighborhood earning a reputation as a hip, multicultural success story and the other as a rougher neighborhood featuring problem schools and high rates of unemployment. Aided by her interviews, she describes how policy makers draw from their imaginations of urban space, immigrants, and integration to develop policies that do not always take social realities into consideration. She offers useful examples of how official policies can actually exacerbate the problems they are trying to help solve and demonstrates that a powerful history of grassroots organizing and resistance can have an equally strong impact on political outcomes. Employing spatial theory as a tool for understanding the complex processes of integration, Hinze asks two related questions: How do immigrants perceive themselves and their experiences in a new culture? And how are immigrants conceived of by politicians and policy makers? Although her research highlights the German–Turk experience in Berlin, her answers have implications that resonate far beyond the city’s limits.

Author : Kira Kosnick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253027795

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Migrant Media by Kira Kosnick Pdf

This study of media and migrant communities in Germany’s capital city is a “model of clarity and rigor in its arguments” (Martin Stokes, University of Chicago). In this innovative and thought-provoking study, Kira Kosnick explores the landscape of Turkish-language broadcasting in Berlin. From twenty-four-hour radio broadcasting in Turkish to programming on Germany’s national public broadcasting and local public access channels, Germany’s largest immigrant minority has made its presence felt in German media. Satellite dishes have appeared in migrant neighborhoods all over the city, giving viewers access to Kurdish channels and broadcasts from Turkey. Kosnick draws on interviews with producers, her own participation in production work, and analysis of programs to elaborate a new approach to “migrant media” in relation to the larger cultural and political spaces through which immigrant life is imagined and created.

Author : Annika Marlen Hinze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Assimilation (Sociology)
ISBN : 1452948364

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Turkish Berlin by Annika Marlen Hinze Pdf

Turkish Berlin reveals how integration has been experienced by second-generation Turkish immigrant women in two neighborhoods in Berlin, Germany. Informed by first-person interviews with public officials and immigrants, Annika Marlen Hinze makes clear that local integration policies-often created by officials who have little or no contact with immigrants-have significant effects on the assimilation of outsiders into a community.

Author : Sarah Thomsen Vierra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427302

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Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany by Sarah Thomsen Vierra Pdf

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

Author : Berna Turam
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804794527

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Gaining Freedoms by Berna Turam Pdf

Gaining Freedoms reveals a new locus for global political change: everyday urban contestation. Cities are often assumed hotbeds of socio-economic division, but this assessment overlooks the importance of urban space and the everyday activities of urban life for empowerment, emancipation, and democratization. Through proximity, neighborhoods, streets, and squares can create unconventional power contestations over lifestyle and consumption. And through struggle, negotiation, and cooperation, competing claims across groups can become platforms to defend freedom and rights from government encroachments. Drawing on more than seven years of fieldwork in three contested urban sites—a downtown neighborhood and a university campus in Istanbul, and a Turkish neighborhood in Berlin—Berna Turam shows how democratic contestation echoes through urban space. Countering common assumptions that Turkey is strongly polarized between Islamists and secularists, she illustrates how contested urban space encourages creative politics, the kind of politics that advance rights, expression, and representation shared between pious and secular groups. Exceptional moments of protest, like the recent Gezi protests which bookend this study, offer clear external signs of upheaval and disruption, but it is the everyday contestation and interaction that forge alliances and inspire change. Ultimately, Turam argues that the process of democratization is not the reduction of conflict, but rather the capacity to form new alliances out of conflict.

Author : H. Julia Eksner
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 382588841X

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Ghetto Ideologies, Youth Identities and Stylized Turkish German by H. Julia Eksner Pdf

This book explores the language ideologies and linguistic practices of a group of working class German Turkish males during the late 1990s. It shows with ethnographic detail that Germany's infamous "kanak sprak" is actually only one of several codes available to this group of immigrant youths, and is used consciously and intentionally. Based on eight months of fieldwork this study details how in the creation of this new code is created as a metalinguistic symbol of identity, and how it is used to index collective group identity. (Series: Spektrum. Berliner Reihe zu Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Entwicklungsl���¤ndern/Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Politics in Developing Countries - Vol. 91)

Author : Ergun Özbudun
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555877354

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Contemporary Turkish Politics by Ergun Özbudun Pdf

Since 1945, Turkey has witnessed no fewer than three breakdowns of the democratic process (1960, 1971 and 1980) and three retransitions to democracy (1961, 1973 and 1983). In this text, the author analyzes 50 years of Turkish politics and provides a theoretical and comparative perspective.

Author : Jennifer A. Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487521929

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Turkish Guest Workers in Germany by Jennifer A. Miller Pdf

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish "guest workers," whom West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ranks. Jennifer A. Miller's unique approach starts in the country of departure rather than the country of arrival and is heavily informed by Turkish-language sources and perspectives. Miller argues that the guest worker program, far from creating a parallel society, involved constant interaction between foreign nationals and Germans. These categories were as fluid as the Cold War borders they crossed. Miller's extensive use of archival research in Germany, Turkey and the Netherlands examines the recruitment?of workers, their travel, initial housing and work engagements, social lives, and involvement in labour and religious movements. She reveals how contrary to popular misconceptions, the West German government attempted to maintain a humane, foreign labour system and the workers themselves made crucial, often defiant, decisions. Turkish Guest Workers in Germany identifies the Turkish guest worker program as a postwar phenomenon that has much to tell us about the development of Muslim minorities in Europe and Turkey's ever-evolving relationship with the European Union.

Author : Lord Eversley
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781537809519

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The Turkish Empire by Lord Eversley Pdf

Towards the middle of the thirteenth century a small band or tribe of nomad Turks migrated from Khorassan, in Central Asia, into Asia Minor. They were part of a much larger body, variously estimated at from two to four thousand horsemen, who, with their families, had fled from their homes in Khorassan under Solyman Shah. They had been driven thence by an invading horde of Mongols from farther east. They hoped to find asylum in Asia Minor. They crossed into Armenia and spent some years in the neighbourhood of Erzerum, plundering the natives there. When the wave of Mongols had spent its force, they proposed to return to Khorassan. On reaching the Euphrates River Solyman, when trying, on horseback, to find a ford, was carried away by the current and drowned. This was reckoned as a bad omen by many of his followers. Two of his sons, with a majority of them, either returned to Central Asia or dispersed on the way there...

Author : Edmund Ollier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
ISBN : UCBK:C006759779

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Cassell's Illustrated History of the Russo-Turkish War by Edmund Ollier Pdf

Author : Ruth Mandel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822389026

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Cosmopolitan Anxieties by Ruth Mandel Pdf

In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have been charged, inconsistent, and resonant of past problematic encounters with a Jewish “other.” Mandel examines the tensions in Germany between race-based ideologies of blood and belonging on the one hand and ambitions of multicultural tolerance and cosmopolitanism on the other. She does so by juxtaposing the experiences of Turkish immigrants, Jews, and “ethnic Germans” in relation to issues including Islam, Germany’s Nazi past, and its radically altered position as a unified country in the post–Cold War era. Mandel explains that within Germany the popular understanding of what it means to be German is often conflated with citizenship, so that a German citizen of Turkish background can never be a “real German.” This conflation of blood and citizenship was dramatically illustrated when, during the 1990s, nearly two million “ethnic Germans” from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union arrived in Germany with a legal and social status far superior to that of “Turks” who had lived in the country for decades. Mandel analyzes how representations of Turkish difference are appropriated or rejected by Turks living in Germany; how subsequent generations of Turkish immigrants are exploring new configurations of identity and citizenship through literature, film, hip-hop, and fashion; and how migrants returning to Turkey find themselves fundamentally changed by their experiences in Germany. She maintains that until difference is accepted as unproblematic, there will continue to be serious tension regarding resident foreigners, despite recurrent attempts to realize a more inclusive and “demotic” cosmopolitan vision of Germany.

Author : Ayhan Kaya
Publisher : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015055596111

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Sicher in Kreuzberg by Ayhan Kaya Pdf

This book examines the construction and articulation of diasporic cultural identity among the Turkish working-class youth in Kreuzberg (Little Istanbul), Berlin. This work primarily suggests that the contemporary diasporic consciousness is built on two antithetical axes: particularism and universalism. The presence of this dichotomy derives from the unresolved historical dialogues that the diasporic youths experience between continuity and disruption, essence and positionality, tradition and translation, homogeneity and difference, past and future, 'here' and 'there', 'roots' and 'routes', and local and global.

Author : M. Hakan Yavuz,Peter Sluglett
Publisher : Utah Series in Middle East Stu
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1607811502

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War and Diplomacy by M. Hakan Yavuz,Peter Sluglett Pdf

Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Utah in 2010.

Author : N. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137450036

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Security and the Turkey-EU Accession Process by N. Martin Pdf

This study examines the history and politics of Turkey-EU relations since 1959, exploring the complex interaction of geostrategic and normative concerns which have resulted in the current lack of accession progress and Turkey's slide to authoritarianism.