Tailoring Strategies According to Ever-Changing Dynamics
The Evolving Image of the Kurdish Diaspora in Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4086866 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Baser (0000-0002-8583-5909, Coventry University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 674-691 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Terrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09546553.2015.1060226 |
| OpenAlex | W1828436697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
Germany might be considered as the European country that has suffered the most from the spatial diffusion of Turkey's internal conflicts. It has received the highest number of Kurdish migrants in Europe and it became the core of Kurdish mobilization in transnational space. Germany's approach to the Kurdish Question on its own soil—combined with the strategies that the Kurdish activists used—determined the scope of opportunity structures for the mobilization of the Kurdish movement. This article explains how Kurdish activism has come to be perceived in Germany, and analyzes the German political environment by focusing on the criminalization and stigmatization of the Kurdish movement, especially during the 1990s. It then describes the discursive shift and change in framing strategies that the Kurdish diaspora experienced after the capture of the the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) leader in 1999. Lastly, it touches upon the recent developments in the Middle East, especially in Kobane, and their impact on the image of the Kurdish movement. The article is based on extensive fieldwork in Germany and includes testimonies of Kurdish diaspora activists, with a focus on their own perceptions about their situation and how they respond to securitization policies in the host country
Criminalization · Diaspora · Economy · Geography · German · Mobilization · Political economy · Political opportunity · Political science · Politics · Securitization · Social movement · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Turkey's Politics and Society
Understanding the Kurdish conflict through the perspectives of the Kurdish-Turkish diaspora in Germany
Counterinsurgency by proxy
Collective resilience in diaspora groups
Proscribing the past or de-proscribing the future
Diasporas and Transportation of Homeland Conflicts
Autonomising Conflict
Euro-Who? Competition over the definition of Dersim’s collective identity in Turkey’s diasporas
Youth responses to state-manufactured diaspora mobilization
Memories of violence in the Rwandan diaspora
The Many Layers of Moral Outrage
Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict
The Role of Internal Forced Migration in Understanding Identity-Power Dynamics Among Kurds in Western Turkey and Bakur Kurdistan
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |