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

"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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kahn, Michelle Lynn (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Series:	Publications of the German Historical Institute
Subjects:	Turks > Germany (West) > Social conditions. Foreign workers > Germany (West) > Social conditions. Racism > Germany (West) Turks > Migrations. Germany (West) > Ethnic relations. Germany (West) > Race relations. Germany (West) > Emigration and immigration. Turkey > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century. Asie Mineure > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 20e siècle. Electronic books.
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Table of 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?