Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-german History - Rilegato

Kahn, Michelle Lynn

 
9781009486712: Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-german History
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ISBN 10: 1009486713 ISBN 13: 9781009486712
Casa editrice: Cambridge Univ Pr, 2024

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What happens when migrants are rejected by the host society that first invited them? How do they return to a homeland that considers them outsiders? Foreign in Two Homelands explores the transnational history of Turkish migrants, Germany's largest ethnic minority, who arrived as 'guest-workers' (Gastarbeiter) between 1961 and 1973. By the 1980s, amid rising racism, neo-Nazis and ordinary Germans blamed Turks for unemployment, criticized their Muslim faith, and argued they could never integrate. In 1983, policymakers enacted a controversial law: paying Turks to leave. Thus commenced one of modern Europe's largest and fastest waves of remigration: within one year, 15% of the migrants—250,000 men, women, and children—returned to Turkey. Their homeland, however, ostracized them as culturally estranged 'Germanized Turks' (Almanci). Through archival research and oral history interviews in both countries and languages, Michelle Lynn Kahn highlights migrants' personal stories and reveals how many felt foreign in two homelands. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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What happens when migrants are rejected by the host society that first invited them? How do they return to a homeland that considers them outsiders? Foreign in Two Homelands explores the transnational history of Turkish migrants, Germany's largest ethnic minority, who arrived as 'guest-workers' (Gastarbeiter) between 1961 and 1973. By the 1980s, amid rising racism, neo-Nazis and ordinary Germans blamed Turks for unemployment, criticized their Muslim faith, and argued they could never integrate. In 1983, policymakers enacted a controversial law: paying Turks to leave. Thus commenced one of modern Europe's largest and fastest waves of remigration: within one year, 15% of the migrants—250,000 men, women, and children—returned to Turkey. Their homeland, however, ostracized them as culturally estranged 'Germanized Turks' (Almancı). Through archival research and oral history interviews in both countries and languages, Michelle Lynn Kahn highlights migrants' personal stories and reveals how many felt foreign in two homelands. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Editore
Cambridge Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1009486713
ISBN 13 
9781009486712
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
350
Contatto del produttore
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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9781009486699: Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History

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ISBN 10:  1009486691 ISBN 13:  9781009486699
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2025
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