Abstract After the labor agreement between Turkey and Germany on October 30, 1961, massive mass migrations from Turkey to Germany took place. It has been observed that this migration movement, which was initially planned to be temporary, started to become permanent over time. Thus, a Turkish diaspora, which has existed in Germany for 60 years, […]
Yazar: Muhammet Mustafa İYİ
Gabriel Sheffer, Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, xiii+290 pp., $44.99, ISBN 9780521811378
Abstract In his book, Gabriel Sheffer describes how people who live abroad somehow try to develop special ties with their homeland, and also try to experience the feeling of being at home even when abroad (p. XIII). Sheffer describes these human communities as “diaspora” (p. 10); the structural, organizational, and behavioral characteristics of these “diasporic” […]
