ISBN:
9781009486682
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 358 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Uniform Title:
Foreign at home : Turkish-German migrants and the boundaries of Europe, 1961-1990
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kahn, Michelle Lynn Foreign in two homelands
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Standford University 2018
DDC:
305.89435043
Keywords:
20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1900 bis ca. 1999)
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20th century
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Turks Social conditions
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Foreign workers Social conditions
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Racism
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Turks Migrations
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
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Gewalt, Intoleranz und Verfolgung in der Geschichte
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HISTORY / Europe / General
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History: specific events & topics
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Rassismus und rassistische Diskriminierung / Antirassismus
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Social discrimination & inequality
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Violence in society
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Germany (West) Ethnic relations
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Germany (West) Race relations
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Germany (West) Emigration and immigration
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Turkey Emigration and immigration 20th century
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History
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Middle East
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Naher Osten
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Western Continental Europe
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Westeuropa
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Deutschland
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Türken
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Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
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Rückwanderung
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Türkei
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Geschichte 1980-1995
Abstract:
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? This book 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the woman with the German house -- Sex, lies, and abandoned families -- Vacations across Cold War Europe -- Remittance machines -- Racism in Hitler's shadow -- The mass exodus -- Unhappy in the homeland -- Epilogue : the final return?
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 319-342
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DOI:
10.1017/9781009486682
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