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This book explores the themes of citizenship in the migration of Turks to the United States. It discusses identity formation across generations among Turkish Americans and analyzes important differences between first and second generation Turkish Americans.
List of contents
Introduction: Turkish Immigration
Bilal Sert and Sebahattin Ziyanak
1. Sociological Framework and Theories on Initiating Factors, Adaptations Experiences, and Millet Immigrants from the Ottoman Empire
Bilal Sert and Sebahattin Ziyanak
2. Descriptive Analysis for Early Turkish Immigrants
Bilal Sert and Sebahattin Ziyanak
3. Initiating Factors for Early Turkish Immigration to the United States
Bilal Sert and Sebahattin Ziyanak
4. Early Turkish Immigrant's Adaptation Experiences
Bilal Sert and Sebahattin Ziyanak
5. Theoretical and Practical Implications
Bilal Sert and Sebahattin Ziyanak
6. Academic Success of Turkish Graduate Students at the United States Universities
Jason Hakan Yagci and Sebahattin Ziyanak
7. Understanding the Social Construction of Whiteness through Theories of Race and International Migration: Whitening Experiences and Turkish Immigrants
Sebahattin Ziyanak
8. Ahiska Turks in the United States Since 2004
Sebahattin Ziyanak
9. Global Remedies: How a Turkish Tycoon Conveyed International Culture to Oklahoma
Sebahattin Ziyanak and Dian Jordan
10. Theories for Immigrants and the Second Generation in the Unites States: Transnationalism and Turkish Transmigrant Identity
Sebahattin Ziyanak
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By Sebahattin Ziyanak and Bilal Sert - Contributions by Dian Jordan and Jason Hakan Yagci
Summary
This book explores the themes of citizenship in the migration of Turks to the United States. It discusses identity formation across generations among Turkish Americans and analyzes important differences between first and second generation Turkish Americans.
