Foreign in Two Homelands - Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History

Between 1961-1973 Turkish migrants were recruited as guest-workers in Germany, becoming West Germany's largest ethnic minority. This transnational history explores their experiences, emphasizing German racism and the estrangement faced by those who remigrated in the following decades. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

List of contents

Introduction: The Woman with the German House; Part I. Separation Anxieties; 1. Sex, Lies, and Abandoned Families; 2. Vacations across Cold War Europe; 3. Remittance Machines; Part II. Kicking out the Turks; 4. Racism in Hitler's Shadow; 5. The Mass Exodus; 6. Unhappy in the Homeland; Epilogue: The Final Return?; Bibliography.

About the author

Michelle Lynn Kahn is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Richmond. Her research examines post-1945 Germany and Europe in a global and transnational frame, focusing on migration, racism, far-right extremism, gender, and sexuality. She was awarded the 2019 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize of the German Historical Institute and the 2022 Chester Penn Higby Prize of the American Historical Association.

Summary

Between 1961-1973 Turkish migrants were recruited as guest-workers in Germany, becoming West Germany's largest ethnic minority. This transnational history explores their experiences, emphasizing German racism and the estrangement faced by those who remigrated in the following decades. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Lynn Kahn, Michelle Lynn (University of Richmond Kahn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009486712
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0948671-2
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Middle East, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social discrimination & inequality, Western Europe, Violence in society, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Western Continental Europe, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, history of modern Germany; history of migration