Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe and North America (eBook, ePUB)

Immigration and Political Mobilization
Redaktion: Akcapar, Sebnem Koser

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book of its kind assessing the dynamics of Turkish immigrants' civic and political involvement both in Europe and America on the path to integration and citizenship.

It was published as a special issue of Turkish Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135754235
• Artikelnr.: 58401788

Autorenporträt

Sebnem Koser Akcapar, Ph.D, is a social anthropologist. She is the director of Georgetown University's McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies. Previously, she worked at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) and at the Center for German and European Studies (CGES) at Georgetown University lecturing inter alia on Muslim communities in Europe and North America, and Islam and Gender.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Introduction: Turkish Identity Formation and Political Mobilization in Western Europe and North America
ebnem Kö
er Akçapar and Gökçe Yurdakul 2. Turkish Organizations in Europe: How National Contexts Provide Different Avenues for Participation Pontus Odmalm 3. Turkish Associations in the United States: Towards Building a Transnational Identity
ebnem Kö
er Akçapar 4. Immigrant Associations in Canada: Included, Accommodated, or Excluded? Saime Ozcurumez 5. Islam, Conflict, and Integration: Turkish Religious Associations in Germany Gökçe Yurdakul and Ahmet Yükleyen 6. "The Light of the Alevi Fire Was Lit in Germany and then Spread to Turkey": A Transnational Debate on the Boundaries of Islam Esra Özyürek 7. Organizing for Access? The Political Mobilization of Turks in Amsterdam Laure Michon and Floris Vermeulen 8. Towards a Success Story? Turkish Immigrant Organizations in Norway Jon Rogstad 9. The Gülen Movement in Ireland: Civil Society Engagements of a Turkish Religio-cultural Movement Jonathan Lacey 10. Afterword: Beyond a Methodologically Nationalist Perspective on Civil Society Thomas Faist