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Alevis in Germany and the Politics of Recognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Martin Sökefeld
Martin Sökefeld*
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Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg.
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Migration has been among the most decisive influences shaping contemporary German society, deeply influencing not only economics and demography but also societal discourse and political practice. Legal issues concerning foreigners and immigration have been hotly debated in German society and have played a central role in many elections at both federal and provincial levels. Recognition is an issue at the heart of these concerns. How are migrants viewed in Germany, as “immigrants” or as “foreigners”? As individuals who form a legitimate part of German society, or who have overstayed their temporary “invitation”? Who contribute to the economy and to public welfare, and or who live at the expense of German society? Who are essentially alien to German society and can at best achieve a liminal state of betweenness, or who actively and self-consciously assume a diversity of positions at all levels of society?

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 29: Special Issue: Forty Years of Turkish Migration to Germany , Spring-Fall 2003 , pp. 133 - 161
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