Routledge Handbook of Turkey's Diasporas

1. Turkey’s Diasporas and Diaspora Policymaking in Flux: An Introduction

Ayca Arkilic and Banu Senay

Part I: Contextualising Turkey’s Diasporas: Past and Present

2. Moving Populations: The Foundations of Diaspora in the Early Republic of Turkey

Christopher Houston and Joost Jongerden

3. From ‘Guest-Workers’ to ‘Muslims’: Representations of Turkish-Origin Migrants in Europe

Ayhan Kaya

4. A History of Turkish Guest Workers in Germany

Jennifer A. Miller

5. The Making of New Diasporic Communities?: Post-2000 Migration from Turkey to Europe

Zeynep Yanaşmayan

6. Migration and Citizenship Regimes in Europe: The Meandering Path to Dual Citizenship in Germany and the Netherlands

Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu

7. The Diaspora Paradox: Methodological Nationalism, Methodological Amnesia, Challenges, and Interventions

Ipek Demir

Part II: Localisation, Transnational Belongings, and Identity

8. Constantinopolitans in the Diaspora of the City: The Global Community of Rum Polites of Istanbul

İlay Romain Örs

9. Enforced Departures, Anxious Arrivals: A Turkish Diaspora in Israel

Karel Valansi

10. The Formation of a Kurdish Diaspora and Transnational Politics

Östen Wahlbeck

11. The Alevi Movement in Europe: A Collective Struggle for Visibility, Rights, and Recognition

Besim Can Zırh

12. The Turkish Muslim Field in Western Europe

Benjamin Bruce

Part III: Governing Diasporas

13. Turkey’s Diaspora Engagement Policies: Past and Present

Damla B. Aksel

14. State-Sponsored Transnational Religious Fields: The Case of the Diyanet

Zana Çitak

15. Turkey’s Diaspora Youth Diplomacy

Banu Senay and Ayca Arkilic

16. Unpacking the State from the Inside Out: Emerging Spaces and Actors of Diaspora Governance in the Border Province of Edirne

Zeynep Kaşlı

17. Non-resident Citizen Voting and Transnational Mobilisation of Political Parties: The Case of Turkey

Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg

18. Turkish Immigrant-origin Political Parties in Europe: The Case of DENK in the Netherlands

Floris Vermeulen

19. How Has Turkey Re-fashioned its Diaspora Engagement Policy during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Gizem Kolbaşı-Muyan

Part IV: Micro-spaces and Everyday Practices

20. “Mosques are life itself there”: The Social Lives of Turkish-Sunni Mosques in Germany

Devran Koray Öcal

21. Performance, Advocacy, and Transnational Networks of Solidarity for Turkish-Speaking Queer Migrants in Berlin

Erkan Gürsel

22. Whose Neighbourhood, Whose City, Whose Country? Visible and Invisible Turkish Diasporic Spaces in Berlin and New York City

Annika Marlen Hinze

23. Post-Migration Society and Turkish Football Clubs in Berlin

Oktay Aktan

24. Marriage Trajectories of Turkey-originated Youth in Europe

Anika Liversage

25. Lending Circles: A Solidarity Practice among Migrant Women from Turkey in Germany

Başak Bilecen

Part V: Cultural Production, Aesthetics, and Creativity

26. Turkish Rap Music, Made in Germany: Origins, History, and Identity

Thomas Solomon

27. A Marketplace of Love: Muhabbet and the Construction of European Alevi Imaginaries

Alex Kreger

28. Cinematographic Expressions of Diasporic Experience: Decades of Turkish-German Cinema

Ayça Tunç Cox

29. Writing Home and Selves in Diaspora: Narratives, Texts, and Practices

Özlem Belçim Galip

30. Graphic Politics: Resistance and Community Building through Comics Activism among Turkey’s Diaspora(s)

Can T. Yalçınkaya

31. From Berlin to the Globe: The Transnational Story of Döner Kebab

Maren Möhring

Part VI: Country-Specific Perspectives

32. Turkey’s Diaspora in Germany: A Transnational Community Divided between Transnational Integration and Distant-Nationalism

Yaşar Aydın

33. The 'Turkish' Community in France: An Influential Branch of the Diaspora

Samim Akgönül

34. Political Participation and Representation of Dutch Citizens with Roots in Turkey

Nermin Aydemir and Liza Mügge

35. Alevi Kurds in the United Kingdom: Community Formation, Visibility, and Integration

Ümit Çetin and Celia Jenkins

36. United We Divide: Turkey’s Hyper-Polarised Diaspora in the USA

Sultan Tepe and Selin Bengi Gümrükçü

37. Turkey’s Diasporas Down Under: Migration to Australia and New Zealand

Banu Senay and Ayca Arkilic

Biography

Ayca Arkilic is Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests are state-diaspora relations and Islam in the West. She is the author of Diaspora Diplomacy: The Politics of Turkish Emigration to Europe (2022).

Banu Senay is Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at the School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the author of Beyond Turkey's Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics, and the Turkish Diaspora (2013) and Musical Ethics and Islam: The Art of Playing the Ney (2020).

"Diaspora in migration studies is a deeply contested concept with often diametrically opposed scholarly approaches. It is also a highly politicised concept and gives sometimes rise to heated debates. Without a doubt diaspora cannot be tackled with a one-size-fits-all approach. The editors of this handbook have understood this quite well. They have compiled chapters that together display the multitude of contextual and historical manifestations and modalities of diaspora. The chapters are published in a Handbook of Turkey’s Diasporas, but the contributions are a must-read also for those working in other fields."

Thijl Sunier, Chair of Islam in European Societies and Professor of Anthropology of Religion, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

"In this collection of illuminating contributions on Turkey’s diasporas, Ayca Arkilic and Banu Senay have assembled a highly innovative group of expert authors who give guidance to this crucial case in diaspora studies. The content of this volume is characterized by diverse disciplines, and the contributions convincingly employ insights from various conceptual perspectives. They establish new ground in topics ranging from the historical trajectories, emigration patterns and efforts at diaspora control to external voting, dual citizenship and engagement in country-of-origin affairs. Each of the individual chapters draws a differentiated portrait. A truly remarkable achievement."

Thomas Faist, Professor of Sociology, Bielefeld University

"Turkey’s diaspora population is an impressive account of migration spread globally. The volume traces the paths of Turkey’s diasporas from “guest workers” in Europe to “citizens abroad” worldwide. Its chapters show various connections across different family and commercial networks, linking private and public spaces as well as economic and political ones; they present the impact of their experiences abroad on the home country and vice-versa, that is the effect of home country on their everyday experiences abroad. Past and present modes of organisation, mobilisation, new dynamics on cultural production combining various local, national, regional inputs, reflect multiple belongings and a sense of citizenship here and there. This handbook, in which empirical research meets conceptual analysis, is also important for comparisons with other diasporic experiences and an indispensable example for those working on this important social and political issue that is at the core of mobility of individuals and globalisation of states."

Riva Kastoryano, Research Director Emerite CNRS, Sciences Po - CERI