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Foreign in two homelands : racism, return migration, and Turkish-German history / Michelle Lynn Kahn

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Publications of the German Historical InstitutePublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 358 pages) : illustrations, mapISBN:
  • 9781009486682
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781009486712. | Erscheint auch als: Foreign in two homelands. Druck-Ausgabe Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2024DDC classification:
  • 305.894/350430904 23/eng/20240327
LOC classification:
  • DD78.T87
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Contents:
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?
Summary: "Between 1961 and 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, and reveals how many came to feel foreign in two homelands"--PPN: PPN: 1922677604Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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