TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kahn,Michelle Lynn
TI  - Foreign in two homelands: racism, return migration, and Turkish-German history 
T2  - Publications of the German Historical Institute
SN  - 9781009486682 (ebook)
AV  - DD78.T87 K346 2024
U1  - 305.894/350430904 23/eng/20240327
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Turks
KW  - Germany (West)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Foreign workers
KW  - Racism
KW  - Migrations
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2024); Introduction: The woman with the German house -- Sex, lies, and abandoned families -- Vacations across Cold War Europe -- Remittance machines -- Racism in Hitler's shadow -- The mass exodus -- Unhappy in the homeland -- Epilogue: The final return?; Open Access
N2  - What happens when migrants are rejected by the host society that first invited them? How do they return to a homeland that considers them outsiders? Foreign in Two Homelands explores the transnational history of Turkish migrants, Germany's largest ethnic minority, who arrived as 'guest-workers' (Gastarbeiter) between 1961 and 1973. By the 1980s, amid rising racism, neo-Nazis and ordinary Germans blamed Turks for unemployment, criticized their Muslim faith, and argued  they could never integrate. In 1983, policymakers enacted a controversial law: paying Turks to leave. Thus commenced one of modern Europe's largest and fastest waves of remigration: within one year, 15% of the migrants-250,000 men, women, and children-returned to Turkey. Their homeland, however, ostracized them as culturally estranged 'Germanized Turks' (Almancı). Through archival research and oral history interviews in both countries and languages, Michelle Lynn Kahn highlights migrants' personal stories and reveals how many felt foreign in two homelands. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009486682
ER  -