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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2024
Print publication year:
2024
Online ISBN:
9781009486682
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Book description

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? Foreign in Two Homelands 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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Contents

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  • Foreign in Two Homelands
    pp i-i
  • Publications of the German Historical Institute - Series page
    pp ii-ii
  • Foreign in Two Homelands - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-v
  • Epigraph
    pp vi-viii
  • Contents
    pp ix-x
  • Figures
    pp xi-xiv
  • Acknowledgments
    pp xv-xx
  • Abbreviations
    pp xxi-xxii
  • Introduction
    pp 1-48
  • The Woman with the German House
  • Part I - Separation Anxieties
    pp 49-174
  • 1 - Sex, Lies, and Abandoned Families
    pp 51-95
  • 2 - Vacations across Cold War Europe
    pp 96-136
  • 3 - Remittance Machines
    pp 137-174
  • Part II - Kicking out the Turks
    pp 175-318
  • 4 - Racism in Hitler’s Shadow
    pp 177-226
  • 5 - The Mass Exodus
    pp 227-267
  • 6 - Unhappy in the Homeland
    pp 268-304
  • Epilogue
    pp 305-318
  • The Final Return?
  • Bibliography
    pp 319-342
  • Index
    pp 343-358

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