Turkish families settling in Europe
Social history beyond half a century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22420636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Murat Arpacı (0000-0002-7892-5850, University of Derby), Murat Arpaci (EBYU Sociology Department), Ebubekir Düzcan (0000-0002-6222-1154, Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The History of the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-602X • E-ISSN: 1873-5398 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1081602x.2026.2700383 |
| OpenAlex | W7168088528 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 40 |
This special issue explores the social history of families from Turkey who have settled in Europe across more than eighty years of migration and transformation. Rather than treating migrant families as passive objects of policy, it presents them as active agents who navigate migration, reshape internal relations of authority, build networks, and transmit family memory across generations. Its historical scope extends from the annexation of Antakya in 1939 through the guest-worker programmes of the 1960s and family reunification to the contemporary ‘New Wave’ of highly skilled migration and ‘uneasiness migration.’ Drawing on oral history, ethnographic fieldwork, comparative film analysis, biographical research, family-based autoethnography, and digital content analysis, the contributions address institutional discrimination, emotional regimes, integration, homemaking, precarity, and the production of ‘migrant family capital’ on digital platforms. They also broaden the geographical focus beyond the conventional emphasis on Germany and other major Western European destinations. The issue also attends to the changing meanings of home, belonging, and intergenerational memory. Together, the articles bring an interdisciplinary perspective to Philip L. Martin’s ‘unfinished story’ of migration and show that the history of families from Turkey is not a temporary episode confined to the past, but an ongoing and dynamic part of the broader history of the family in Europe.
Annexation · Ethnography · Family reunification · Oral history · Perspective (graphical) · Scope (computer science) · Social history (medicine) · Turkish · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics
Kurdish Diasporas
Transnational Politics
The Age of Migration
Fear of the Family
Intergenerational Consequences of Migration
Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
Theories of International Migration
Building Pious Generations in Turkey
White Fragility at the European Borders
From Roots to Routes
From bonds to bounds
From Exit to Voice
Who is “Queerer” and Deserves Resettlement
Lesbian refugees in transit
Integration practices of Turkish families in the UK
High-skilled mobility from Turkey to Germany
Acı Vatan (bitter homeland) revisited
Antakya at the crossroads of Europe
Welcome to our channel and home”
Building a new life
Silence in turns
Migration, precarisation and telework
Marriage in a ‘Culture of Migration’. Emirdag Marrying into Flanders
Turks in Europe
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey
New Wave Turks’
Snakes and Ladders in Educational Systems
Democratic Decline and Return Migration
Multicultural Clientelism and Alevi Resurgence in the Turkish Diaspora
Family History, Social History, and Social Change
Transnational citizenship
Three-generation Marriage Patterns
Intergenerational relationships in families from Turkey and Germany
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |