Journal article

Authors list: Leggewie, C

Publication year: 1999

Pages: 103-118

Journal: Le mouvement social

Volume number: 188

ISSN: 0027-2671

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.2307/3779960

Publisher: SciencesPo Les Presses

Abstract: 
At around two million, people of Turkish descent and origin make up the largest ethnic minority in today's Federal Republic of Germany. The largest proportion of Turks living in Germany has already been residing there legally for two or more decades, often already in the second or third generation. The overwhelming majority of younger Turks was born in Germany, but owing to Germany's anachronistic citizenship law (ius sanguinis), they do not possess German nationality, even if a growing number has dual citizenship. Still, there is not only an ethnic line of conflict and cleavage between Germans and Turks, but also a divide within the community of Turkish citizens living inside Germany (and in other European societies). Since the end of the Seventies, above all, many " Turks " have discovered and played up their Kurdish origins. The article asks why a big part of former Turkish guest workers became Kurds, not Germans, and why at ail self-identification with a transnational ethnic community abroad overwhelmed political inclusion as German citizens " at home ".

Harvard Citation style: Leggewie, C. (1999) Turcs, Kurdes et Allemands. Histoire d'une migration: de la stratification sociale à la différenciation culturelle, 1961-1990, Le mouvement social, 188, pp. 103-118. https://doi.org/10.2307/3779960

APA Citation style: Leggewie, C. (1999). Turcs, Kurdes et Allemands. Histoire d'une migration: de la stratification sociale à la différenciation culturelle, 1961-1990. Le mouvement social. 188, 103-118. https://doi.org/10.2307/3779960