Varying Transnational and Multicultural Activities in the Turkish–German Migration Context

Gerdes, J. Christian; Reisenauer, Eveline; Sert, Deniz

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“…At the beginning, Turkish immigrants were called guest workers by the host society, implying that they would stay and work in Germany for a limited time and then would return to Turkey (Gerdes, Reisenauer, & Sert, 2012). Nevertheless, the first massive phase of migration brought about the second phase, which was family reunification and illegal gateways of migration, followed by the third and fourth waves of refugees and asylum seekers and others (Y.…”

Section: The Field: Turkey-germany Migration Casementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Aydın, 2016). Throughout this period, the host was trying to find solutions to the emerging problems since the guest workers became settlers, sometimes by incentives to send the immigrants back to their own country, or sometimes by making laws to regulate their lives (Gerdes et al, 2012). On the other side, the immigrants were getting stronger by improving their life skills and increasing the value of their social, economic, and cultural capital over time.…”

Section: The Field: Turkey-germany Migration Casementioning

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Migration and Participation in Adult Education: The Matthew Effect on Immigrants

Bağcı

2019

Adult Education Quarterly

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The Matthew Effect has been one of the best known principles in adult education, implying that the ones who have more formal education at earlier phases of life participate more in education in adulthood. This qualitative research explores how the Matthew Effect works under migration, focusing on the experiences of the Turkish immigrants in Germany. The documentary analyses of the narrative interviews in the study reveal that the Matthew Effect among immigrants works depending on the formation of the immigrant habitus. The factors to mediate the making of the immigrant habitus are social and cultural capital, gender, the hysteresis effect, and affections such as expectations from the host society, biographical regrets, and the sense of belonging to the collective identity of the immigrants.

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Section: The Field: Turkey-germany Migration Casementioning

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Section: The Field: Turkey-germany Migration Casementioning

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Migration and Participation in Adult Education: The Matthew Effect on Immigrants

Bağcı

2019

Adult Education Quarterly

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“…The "guest worker" generation had a long-lasting orientation toward return during their stay in Germany (see also Gerdes et al, 2012). From the outset, the recruitment of Turkish "guest workers" was regarded as temporary migration.…”

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“…Processes of transnationalization were analyzed in the political, economic, sociocultural, and educational spheres (Pitkänen, Içduygu, & Sert, 2012). The focus of the German survey was to investigate the transnational practices of migrants from Turkey and their descendants (Gerdes, Reisenauer, & Sert, 2012). Seventy-three qualitative interviews were conducted with former "guest workers," marriage migrants, family-based migrants, German-born children of Turkish migrants, asylum seekers, international students, and high-skilled labor migrants.…”

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Experiencing “close strangers” and “distant intimates”: Transnational childhoods between Turkey and Germany

Reisenauer

2015

Transnational Social Review

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This article deals with the circumstances experienced by those children who not only were affected by the emigration of their parents, but who also showed a high mobility volume themselves. This was accomplished by focusing on children of Turkish migrants from the "guest worker" era in Germany. Due to multiple migration processes, they have had to adapt to diverse transnational family arrangements early in their lives. In general, many children of Turkish migrants were characterized by transnational childhoods. By examining cases where children were initially left behind in the care of their grandparents in Turkey and followed their parents to Germany later on, the article points out how those migrant children experienced both "close strangers" and "distant intimates." The article thus contributes to the understanding of the relationship between sociality and spatiality in migration processes.

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“…'Transnationalisation, Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism' (TRANS-NET) is the title of a research project that focused on transnationalisation processes in the political, economic, sociocultural, and educational spheres in different country constellations (Estonia/Finland, India/UK, Morocco/France, and Turkey/Germany) [Pitkänen, Içduygu, Sert 2012]. The focus of the German part of TRANS-NET at Bielefeld University was to investigate transnational practices within the frame of Turkish-German migration [Gerdes, Reisenauer, Sert 2012]. In this study, seventy-three qualitative interviews were conducted with 'Turkish migrants' and their descendants in Germany.…”

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The Socialisation of Migrant Children in Transnational Settings

Reisenauer¹

2022

Czech Sociological Review

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This article argues that it is central to consider the socialisation processes of migrant children in transnational settings when focusing on issues of integration and the transnationality of the next generation. A central experience of migrant children is that they grow up and are involved in both the emigration and immigration country (of their parents). Many of them circulate between Germany and Turkey several times and maintain multiple relationships across national borders when they are growing up. This has implications for their family relationships and educational careers in childhood, but beyond that it also has effects that are detectable into adulthood. The article shows that migrant children develop the potential and skills that enable them to live a transnational life. The question the article therefore addresses is whether and how a transnational childhood affects the transnationality and integration of the next generation in the adult life.

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Varying Transnational and Multicultural Activities in the Turkish–German Migration Context

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

Migration and Participation in Adult Education: The Matthew Effect on Immigrants

Migration and Participation in Adult Education: The Matthew Effect on Immigrants

Experiencing “close strangers” and “distant intimates”: Transnational childhoods between Turkey and Germany

The Socialisation of Migrant Children in Transnational Settings

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