Turkish Youths in Berlin
Transnational Identification and Double Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7338884 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Mannitz (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Pages | 85-106 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0896634600006129 |
| OpenAlex | W2490910545 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Migration research has often stressed the adverse circumstances of Turkish immigrants living in Germany. The situation of the so-called second and third generations in particular has been seen as entailing a problematic double-bind of living “between two cultures.” In this scholarship, the image of such youth trapped in a structural culture conflict creates the impression that serious personal and emotional crises are an inevitable part of Turkish migrant youths' coming of age in Germany. Moreover, former guest workers and their families have been treated with a less than hospitable attitude insofar as efforts to facilitate their incorporation, for example, by way of the German legal system. Although the hiring of foreign laborers undeniably contributed to the economic and social recovery of West Germany after National Socialism and World War II, immigration has never been treated as a favorable option in German politics. The project of hiring laborers from abroad on a temporary basis gradually developed into de facto immigration, unintended on the part of both Germans and Turks. The resulting demographic multi-nationalization has not (yet), however, become a self-evident ingredient of the German conscience collective (Schiffauer, 1993, pp. 195-98). The very ambivalence of this situation influences the prevalent conceptualizations of the various social groups, as the following brief account illustrates
Agency (philosophy · Ambivalence · German · Immigration · Nazi Germany · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Turkish · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Limits of citizenship
Negotiating Identities
Nations and Nationalism
Challenge to the Nation-State
Nations Unbound
Locating Europe1
Imagined communities
Between Normality and Particularity – National Identity in West Germany
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Challenging the Liberal Nation-State? Postnationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Collective Claims Making of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |