Transnational Politics: Turks and Kurds in Germany

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Éditeur : Routledge	Date & Lieu : 2003-01-01, New York
Préface :	Pages : 193
Traduction :	ISBN : 0-415-26586-X
Langue : Anglais	Format : 155x230 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Ang. 1813	Thème : Politique

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Transnational Politics: Turks and Kurds in Germany Modern communications make it easier for all types of migrants to stay in touch with their country of origin meaning that migrants’ transnational engagement is an increasingly important and relevant topic. Transnational Politics shows how the politics of one country, Turkey, plays itself out in another, Germany, through the presence and engagement of migrants and refugees. This book offers a unique case study of transnational political engagement of Turkish and Kurdish migrants and refugees in Germany and the political impact of these at national and international levels. Turkish and Kurdish organizations in Germany not only mobilize in relation to immigrant political issues of equal rights, discrimination, and citizenship in Germany, but also in relation to the domestic and foreign political situation in Turkey. In this way they become a linkage group between Turkey and Germany. The case of migrants and refugees from Turkey to Germany is in many ways paradigmatic for how migrants’ transnational practices occur and are perceived in a European context. This book will be of value to readers with an interest in the politics of international migration and migrant transnationalism and in the ways in which migrants themselves challenge and contribute to processes of democratization in both their country of origin and settlement.

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Transnational Politics
Turks and Kurds in Germany

Eva Østergaard-Nielsen

First published 2003
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

© 2003 Eva Østergaard-Nielsen

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Østergaard-Nielsen, Eva, 1969–
Transnational politics: Turks and Kurds in Germany/Eva Østergaard-Nielsen.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Turks—Germany—Social conditions. 2. Kurds—Germany—Social
conditions. 3. Germany—Ethnic relations. 4. Marginality, Social—Germany.
5. Transnationalism. 6. Germany—Emigration and immigration. I. Title.
DD78.T87 O88 2003
305.89'435043'09049–dc21 2002068197

ISBN 0-203-36162-8 Master e-book ISBN
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Eva Østergaard-Nielsen is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Migration Research Group, Department of Geography, Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has published on the subject of diasporas and the political participation of migrants, notably in Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs and Sais Review: A Journal of International Affairs.