ISBN:
0816678146
,
9780816678143
,
0816678154
,
9780816678150
Language:
English
Pages:
xxix, 201 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Globalization and community volume 21
DDC:
305.4889435043155
Keywords:
Türkische Einwanderin
;
Identität
;
Soziale Integration
;
Türken
;
Integration
;
Politik
;
Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
;
Berlin-Neukölln
;
Berlin
Abstract:
Zusammenfassung: 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
URL:
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