Transnational Politics: Turks and Kurds in Germany (Transnationalism)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
Migrants' transnational claims-making: rethinking concepts and theories......Page 28
Migration, transnational spaces, and German-Turkish relations......Page 48
Between homeland political and immigrant political mobilization......Page 61
From confrontational to multi-layered strategies: Turkish and Kurdish information campaigns in Germany......Page 85
Thresholds of tolerance: Turkish politics within German political institutions......Page 100
From 'remittance machines' to 'Euro Turks': Turkey's changing perceptions of Turkish citizens abroad......Page 122
Conclusions......Page 138
Table and figures......Page 150
Methodology......Page 152
Migrant associations, political parties, and state agencies with whom interviews were conducted......Page 155
Notes......Page 163
References......Page 173
Index......Page 186