Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 269 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781108691475
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
As the largest national group of guest workers in Germany, the Turks became a visible presence in local neighbourhoods and schools and had diverse social, cultural, and religious needs. Focussing on West Berlin, Sarah Thomsen Vierra explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children from the early days of their participation in the post-war guest worker program to the formation of multi-generational communities. Both German and Turkish sources help to uncover how the first and second generations created spaces of belonging for themselves within and alongside West German society, while also highlighting the factors that influenced that process, from individual agency and community dynamics to larger institutional factors such as educational policy and city renovation projects. By examining the significance of daily interactions at the workplace, in the home, in the neighbourhood, and in places of worship, we see that spatial belonging was profoundly linked to local-level daily life and experiences
Content:
Settling in at work -- At home in Almanya -- Around the neighborhood -- Learning to belong -- Making space for religion -- Belonging in reunified Germany -- Conclusion : integration as history, reciprocity, and space
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Oct 2018)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108427302
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108446051
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Thomsen Vierra, Sarah, 1979 - Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany Washington, DC : German Historical Institute, 2018 ISBN 9781108427302
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108446051
Language:
English
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Türken
DOI:
10.1017/9781108691475
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Author information:
Thomsen Vierra, Sarah 1979-
