Overview

The `refugee crisis' and the recent rise of anti-immigration parties across Europe has prompted widespread debates about migration, integration and security on the continent. But the perspectives and experiences of immigrants in northern and western Europe have equal political significance for contemporary European societies. While Turkish migration to Europe has been a vital area of research, little scholarly attention has been paid to Turkish migration to specifically Sweden, which has a mix of religious and ethnic groups from Turkey and where now well over 100,000 Swedes have Turkish origins. This book examines immigration from Turkey to Sweden from its beginnings in the mid-1960s, when the recruitment of workers was needed to satisfy the expanding industrial economy. It traces the impact of Sweden's economic downturn, and the effects of the 1971 Turkish military intervention and the 1980 military coup, after which asylum seekers - mostly Assyrian Christians and Kurds - sought refuge in Sweden. Contributors explore how the patterns of labour migration and interactions with Swedish society impacted the social and political attitudes of these different communities, their sense of belonging, and diasporic activism. The book also investigates issues of integration, return migration, transnational ties, external voting and citizenship rights. Through the detailed analysis of migration to Sweden and emigration from Turkey, this book sheds new light on the situation of migrants in Europe.

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Author:   Bahar Baser (Coventry University, UK) ,  Paul T. Levin (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9780755643530

ISBN 10:   0755643534
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   21 October 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

The 50th Anniversary of the Beginning of Migration from Turkey to Sweden: Lessons Concerning Integration, Cohesion, and Inclusion Paul Levin & Bahar Baser 2- Reflections on the issue of integration Charles Westin 3- Nicknames in diaspora: Tracing migrant tales of first-generation Turkish migrants in Sweden Oncel Naldemirci 4- The Turkish generation born in Sweden: Bridge-builders or new Swedes? Vera Constanza Larrucea 5- Turkish maintanence and bilingualism among second-generation Turks in multicultural Stockholm Memet Akturk Drake 6- Turkish media space in Sweden: Case of Turkish broadcasts in Swedish Public Service Radio Altug Akin 7- Organising of Turkish migrants in metropolitan Stockholm: From national federation to women, youth and other associations Yasemin Akis and Mahir Kalaylioglu 8- The transnational activism of the Kurdish Diaspora and the Swedish approach to the Kurdish Question Bahar Baser, Idris Ahmedi & Mari Toivanen 9- In search of a new home: The Assyrian Diaspora in Sweden Aryo Makko

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Bahar Baser is a research fellow at the Centre for Peace, Trust and Social Relations at Coventry University and a visiting research fellow at the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA) at Stellenbosch University, funded by the National Research Foundation. She completed her PhD in social and political sciences at the European University Institute in Florence. Ba?er is the author of Diasporas and Homeland Conflicts (2015) and co-editor of Authoritarian Politics in Turkey (forthcoming 2017). She has various publications in peer-reviewed academic journals, including Terrorism and Political Violence, Ethnopolitics and the International Journal of Kurdish Studies. Paul T. Levin is the founding Director of the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS). Previously he served as Program Director for Governance and Management Training and taught International Relations at the Department of Economic History, both at Stockholm University. He received his PhD from the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. Levin is the author of Turkey and the European Union: Christian and Secular Images of Islam and is a frequent commentator on Turkish affairs in Swedish and international media.

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