Ahmet Akgündüz

Published: Oct 17, 2023 by in A. Yenen & E.J. Zürcher (eds.) A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey, Leiden: Leiden University Press, pp. 229-233
Authors: Ahmet Akgündüz
Subjects: History

This article is about how Turkish migrant workers in Germany in the early 1960s struggled to gain and achieved the same social rights as Southern European migrant workers had.

Published: Apr 12, 2021 by International Migration, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.12933
Authors: Ahmet Akgündüz
Subjects: Geography

This article presents a historical overview with a comparative perspective of some basic aspects of the migration movement to Germany and Europe.

Published: Feb 04, 2013 by The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
Authors: Ahmet Akgündüz

For many centuries, Europe called the Ottoman empire Turkey. The country's rulers and inhabitants, however, only took on the name Turkey in 1923, upon proclamation of the republic in what is the country's present‐day territory. Migration movements during the Ottoman period can be classified under the headings of forced or voluntary migrations, while, during the republic, the headings of external or internal migration are appropriate.

Published: Nov 01, 2012 by in M. Martiniello and J. Rath (eds.) An Introduction to International Migration Studies: European Perspectives
Authors: Akgündüz, Ahmet

This chapter examines the migration of labourers in post-war Europe, both officially recruited and arrived on their own, in a comparative and historical perspective.

Published: May 22, 1999 by Toplum ve Bilim (Society and Science), No: 80, pp. 144-170
Authors: Ahmet Akgündüz

This article analyses types, numbers and ethno-religious compositions of migrations from and to the Ottoman Empire from 1783 to 1922; and presents an analysis of why Turkish-speaking Muslim populace, in general, shunned joining migration to North America for employment, despite the existence of objective conditions inducing them to join.

Published: Jan 14, 1998 by Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Authors: Ahmet Akgündüz
Subjects: Anthropology - Soc Sci

Migratory movements to and from Turkey during the period between 1783 and 1960 are analysed by grouping them under two headings: non‐economic migrations and economic migrations. The size, ethno‐religious composition and causes of each movement are considered. The article pays special attention to the mass economic migration from Turkey (the Ottoman Empire) to North and South America.

Published: Oct 01, 1993 by Sociologische Gids, Vol. 40, Nr. 5, pp.352-385
Authors: Ahmet Akgündüz
Subjects: Anthropology - Soc Sci

This article comparatively analyses the labour recruitment policies of Germany and the Netherlands from Turkey by focusing on the areas of recruitment, the proportion of skilled and urban origin workers as weel as the sector of employment of the workers.

Published: Sep 10, 1993 by Capital & Class, No. 51, pp.153-194
Authors: Ahmet Akgündüz
Subjects: Sociology

By joining the migratory labour movement to West-ern Europe in the early 1960s, Turkey for the first time in its history became a country of largescale economic emigration. It is here argued that the growth of the number of Turkish workers in Europe during the recruitment period, and their development as the largest of the foreign labour contingents in Germany and the Netherlands, was due to the exhaustion of south European countries’ labour reserves.