The article takes up current scholarly and policy discussions on mass media and minority participation in Western Europe, where the prerogative of letting minorities`speak in their own voice' occupies a central place. The article presents the mass media activities of Turkish Alevi migrants at a local open-access television station in Berlin, and problematises the notion of`voice' with regard to cultural representations in their programmes and Internet publications. It is argued that Alevi media productions employ a range of representational strategies that can be understood only if their transnational context is taken into account. Confronting hegemonic discourses tied to two different nation-states which ascribe diverging negative meanings to Alevi Muslims, media producers are shown to exploit this divergence in their attempts to construct positive images of Alevilik.
This article explores the framing of conflicts over public space as they unfold in a climate of neoliberal urban transformation in contemporary Germany. Examining how the alleged concerns of a ‘queer community’ have been pitted against the alleged moral agenda of Muslim immigrants in the country, examples of conflicts over ‘queer’ public leisure spaces in Berlin will give insights into how different cultural minority positions are mobilized against each other in the context of both urban and national citizenship debates that are marked by a neoliberal re‐evaluation of diversities and inequalities.
Retirement migration from Germany to Turkey is practiced by both former labour migrants from Turkey who spent their working lives in Germany, and by German retirees without prior migration backgrounds who have discovered Turkey as a retirement destination in the context of tourism. This article presents findings from the empirical investigation of cross-border mobility patterns and motivations among both groups of retirees who are mobile between Germany and popular tourist destinations in the district of Antalya in Turkey. We argue in this article that mobile ageing practices not only exhibit similarities across the two groups, but are also significantly shaped by conditions over which both groups exercise very limited or no control. Economic inequalities, legal insecurities and health imponderabilities emerged as relevant dimensions in our research. Examining how mobile retirees cope with these, we suggest the concept of tactical mobility to make sense of their cross-border migration practices and the reasonings that undergird them.
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