Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe and North America
Public and even scholarly debates usually focus on the integration problems of Muslim immigrants at the cost of overlooking the role of the growing number of migrant organizations in establishing a crucial link among immigrants themselves, as well as between them and their countries of origin and residence. This book aims to fill a gap in the vast literature on migration from Turkey by contributing the neglected aspect of civic and political participation of Turkish immigrants. It brings together a number of scholars who carried out extensive research on the associational culture of Turkish immigrants living in different countries in Europe and North America. In order to understand the diversity and dynamics within Turkish migrant communities living in these parts of the world yet maintaining transnational ties, this book offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to migrant organizations in general and civic participation and political mobilization of Turkish immigrants in particular.
This book was published as a special issue in Turkish Studies.
ebnem Ker Akapar, PhD, is a Social Anthropologist. She is the Director of Georgetown Universitys 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.
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Sbnem Ker Akapar , PhD is a Social Anthropologist. She is the Director of Georgetown Universitys 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.
Thomas Faist is Professor of Transnational Relations and Sociology of Development at the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University (www.comcad-bielefeld.de). Formerly, he directed International Studies in Political Management (ISPM) at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen. His research focuses on migration, ethnic relations, citizenship, social policy, and transnationalization. Faist was Willy-Brandt-Guest Professor at the University of Malm, and DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. He is a deputy editor of The Sociological Quarterly and a member of the editorial boards of Ethnic & Racial Studies and Migration Letters . His recent book publications include The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces (Oxford University Press, 2004); Dual Citizenship in Europe: From Nationhood to Societal Integration (Ashgate, 2007); Citizenship: Discourse, Theory and Transnational Prospects , with Peter Kivisto (Blackwell, 2007), and Dual Citizenship in a Globalizing World: From Unitary to Multiple Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Ahmet Iduygu (PhD Australian National University, Australia, 1991) is Professor in the Department of International Relations, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Ko University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is also the Director of the Migration Research Program at Ko University. He serves as the national correspondent of Turkey to the SOPEMI-Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, and as a member of the International Advisory Board of Mediterranean Migratory Observatory, Athens. He has conducted research for international organizations such as IOM: the International Organization for Migration, UNHCR: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and ILO: the International Organization of Labor. He teaches on the theories and practices of citizenship, international organizations, civil society, nationalism and ethnicity, migration, and research methods. He has published several articles in academic journals such as International Migration, International Social Science Journal, Global Governance, Middle Eastern Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Population and Environment, Human Rights Quarterly, Citizenship Studies, Journal of Scientific Studies of Religion, Mediterranean Quarterly, and Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. He has also co-edited a book titled Citizenship in a Global World (Routledge, 2005).
Jonathan Lacey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology in Trinity College, Dublin, where he completed an MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies. He has published in Translocations: The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review . He is also a part-time research assistant to a Senior Ethnographic Researcher at Intel, focusing on independent living for elder people.
Laure Michon holds an MA of Political Science (University of Amsterdam) and a Research Master from the European University Institute. Currently, she is a PhD student at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on how ethnic minority politicians get access to the local political arena and how their political careers evolve. Her article on the Amsterdam case: Carrires politiques locales dimmigrs Amsterdam, 1997-2000, was published in Migrations Socit.
Pontus Odmalm is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on national citizenship, political integration, and civil society in a comparative, European perspective. He is currently working on political parties attitudes towards immigration and the EU. Some of his recent publications include One Size Fits All? European Citizenship, National Citizenship Policies and Integration Requirements ( Representation , 2007, Vol. 43, No. 1); Getting Ethnic Questions on the Agenda: Party Formation as a Strategy for Social Movements with Charles Lees ( Social Movements Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest , 2006, Vol. 5, No. 1); and Migration Policies and Political Participation: Inclusion or Intrusion in Western Europe? (Palgrave, 2005).
