Turkish Origin Migrants and Their Descendants

Description

This book analyses Muslim-origin immigrant communities in Europe, and the problematic nature of their labelling by both their home and host countries. The author challenges the ways in which both sending and receiving countries encapsulate these migrants within the religiously defined closed box of “Muslim” and/or “Islam”. Transcending binary oppositions of East and West, European and Muslim, local and newcomer, Kaya presents the multiple identities of Muslim-origin immigrants by interrogating the third space paradigm. Turkish Origin Migrants and Their Descendants analyses the complexity of the hyphenated identities of the Turkish-origin community with their intricate religious, ethnic, cultural, ideological and personal elements. This insight into the life-worlds of transnational individuals and local communities will be of interest to students and scholars of the social sciences, migration studies, and political science, especially those concerned with Islamization of radicalism, populism, and Islamophobia in a European context. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Ayhan Kaya)....Pages 1-21 Theoretical and Philosophical Encounters in Migration Studies (Ayhan Kaya)....Pages 23-49 Labelling Migrants: From Migrant Workers to ‘Muslims’ (Ayhan Kaya)....Pages 51-75 Constructing Communities of Faith, Ethnicity and Culture (Ayhan Kaya)....Pages 77-93 Home-State Politics Towards Turkish Emigrants (Ayhan Kaya)....Pages 95-111 Politics of Transnational Space (Ayhan Kaya)....Pages 113-138 Conclusion (Ayhan Kaya)....Pages 139-144 Back Matter ....Pages 145-163