Thomas Faist - Transnational Social Spaces: Agents, Networks and Institutions

TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL SPACES

Agents, Networks and Institutions

Edited by

THOMAS FAIST

University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany

EYP ZVEREN

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Transnational social spaces : agents, networks and
institutions. - (Research in migration and ethnic relations series)
1. Turks - Germany - Social conditions 2. Turks - Germany
Ethnic identity 3. Turks - Germany - Cultural assimilation
4. Transnationalism 5. Culture conflict - Germany 6. Germany
Relations - Turkey 7. Turkey - Relations - Germany 8. Germany
- Ethnic relations 9. Germany- Emigration and immigration
I. Faist, Thomas, 1959- II. zveren, Eyp
305.89435043

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Transnational social spaces : agents, networks and institutions / [edited] by Thomas
Faist and Eyp zveren.
p. cm. --(Research in migration and ethnic relations series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Turks--Germany--Social conditions. 2. Germany--Ethnic relations. 3. Germany--Emigration and immigration. 4. Turkey--Emigration and immigration. 5. Group identity--Germany. 6. Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Germany. 7. Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Turkey. 8. Social integration--Germany. I. Faist, Thomas, 1959- II. zveren, Eyp, 1959- III. Series.
DD78.T87T73 2004
305.89'435043--dc22 2004007280

ISBN 9780754632917 (hbk)

Thomas Faist

Zeynep Kadirbeyolu

Hanife Aliefendiolu

Bianca Kaiser

Emre Arslan

Cem Dibudak

Marita Lintfert

Kira Kosnick

Gaby Straburger

Hanife Aliefendiolu has a PhD in Anthropology from Hacettepe University, Ankara. She has been involved in the activities of various civil society organizations and civil service departments concerned with women's rights. Currently she is Assistant Professor at Eastern Mediterranean University, Magusa, Turkish Republic of North Cyprus.

Emre Arslan is a doctoral Student in the Department of Sociology at Biele-feld University. He graduated from the Department of Political Science at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and wrote his Master Thesis on The Role of the Nationalist Action Party in Turkey in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University, Ankara. The subject of his dissertation is the reproduction process of nationalist myths among Turkish fascists in Germany.

Cem Dibudak received his Master of Science degree in 1996 in Economics from Oklahoma State University, USA and his PhD in 2003 in Economics from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. His main areas of interest are the economics of international migration, history of economic thought, macroeconomic theory, economic development, and the Turkish economy. Currently, he is a researcher at Mula University.

Thomas Faist is Professor of Political Science and Political Management and Director of the Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD) at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen. He received his PhD from The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research in New York. He currently directs research projects on the politics of dual citizenship, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and on migration control and democracy in Europe, sponsored by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

Zeynep Kadirbeyolu is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science at McGill University. Her research interests are state-society relations with reference to development projects and participation. Among her publications are State Structures: Coercion vs. Co-ordination. Some Lessons for Turkey, co-authored with Fikret Adaman (New Perspectives on Turkey, Spring 1999) and Medieval Business Partnerships: Islamic vs. Western (New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 2001).

Bianca Kaiser is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Director of the International Office at stanbul Kltr University. Her research interests include Germany's EU policies, Turkish-German relations, and migration from the EU to Turkey. Her latest publications include German Foreign Policy after Unification: Normality or Assertiveness? (stanbul Kltr University Journal of Social Sciences, 2002) and Almanya nzn Avrupa Politikasz: 1949-2003 (stanbul: Balam Yaynlar, forthcoming).

Kira Kosnick is research fellow at the University of Southampton, UK, where she is working for the EU Fifth Framework project Changing City Spaces that studies cultural policy and migrant cultural scenes in European capital cities. She received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research in New York, with a doctoral thesis on local Turkish minority media in Berlin. Her current research interests include the transformation and reconfiguration of urban space through transnational cultural practices.

Marita Lintfert received her Master of Arts degree in German as a Foreign Language, English and American Literature and Sociology at the Bielefeld University. From 1996-2000 she was a lecturer at the Marmara University in stanbul, Turkey. She is currently teaching at the Goethe-Institute Inter Nationes and at the Foreign Language Centre of the state of Bremen.

Eytp zveren is Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He studied economics and sociology. Formerly affiliated with the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations of the State University of New York at Binghamton (USA), he has been involved in the worldsystems analysis of large-scale, long-term social change. He is the author of numerous publications with a theoretical specialization in institutionalism and a geographical focus on the Eastern Mediterranean.

Gaby Straburger received her doctoral degree in Social Sciences at the University of Osnabrck, Germany. Since 2002 she has been coordinator of Community Work at the Institut fr Stadtteilbezogene Soziale Arbeit und Beratung (ISSAB), Essen. She wrote her dissertation on Marriage Behaviour and Partner Choice in the Context of Immigration.