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Cosmopolitan Anxieties - Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany (Paperback)
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Cosmopolitan Anxieties - Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany (Paperback)
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In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany's relation
to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their
descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of
ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany's
reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have been charged,
inconsistent, and resonant of past problematic encounters with a
Jewish "other." Mandel examines the tensions in Germany between
race-based ideologies of blood and belonging on the one hand and
ambitions of multicultural tolerance and cosmopolitanism on the
other. She does so by juxtaposing the experiences of Turkish
immigrants, Jews, and "ethnic Germans" in relation to issues
including Islam, Germany's Nazi past, and its radically altered
position as a unified country in the post-Cold War era.Mandel
explains that within Germany the popular understanding of what it
means to be German is often conflated with citizenship, so that a
German citizen of Turkish background can never be a "real German."
This conflation of blood and citizenship was dramatically
illustrated when, during the 1990s, nearly two million "ethnic
Germans" from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union arrived in
Germany with a legal and social status far superior to that of
"Turks" who had lived in the country for decades. Mandel analyzes
how representations of Turkish difference are appropriated or
rejected by Turks living in Germany; how subsequent generations of
Turkish immigrants are exploring new configurations of identity and
citizenship through literature, film, hip-hop, and fashion; and how
migrants returning to Turkey find themselves fundamentally changed
by their experiences in Germany. She maintains that until
difference is accepted as unproblematic, there will continue to be
serious tension regarding resident foreigners, despite recurrent
attempts to realize a more inclusive and "demotic" cosmopolitan
vision of Germany.
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