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Multilevel Citizenship
Multilevel Citizenship challenges the dominant conception of citizenship as legal and political equality within a sovereign state, demonstrates how citizenship is constructed by political and legal practices, and explores alternative forms of membership in substate, suprastate, and nonstate political communities.
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their everyday life engagement with Islam. It deals with the reconstruction of selfhood and the collective content of identity formation in an urban and transnational setting.
The Headscarf Controversy
"Examining legal and political debates in Turkey, several European countries, and the United States, Elver shows the exclusion of pious Muslim women from the public sphere in the name of secularism, democracy, liberalism, and women's rights. Elver shows how these influences have resulted in a failure on the part of many Western governments to recognize and protect essential individual freedoms" --Amazon.com.
Urban Renaissance Berlin: Towards an Integrated Strategy for Social Cohesion and Economic Development
This study of Berlin, after German unification, examines and makes proposals for distressed areas where there is a need for targeted regeneration measures.
Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment
Turkish German comedy culture and the lived realities of Turkish Muslims in Germany Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society and its largest labour migrant community have been asking for decades what it means to be German and what it means for Turkish Germans, Muslims of the second and third generations, to call Germany their home. Benjamin Nickl examines through the social pragmatics of humour the dynamics that underpin these questions in the still-evolving popular culture space of German mainstream humour in the 21st century. The first book-length study on the topic to combine close readings of film, television, literary and online comedy, and transnational culture studies, Turkish German Muslims and Comedy Entertainment presents the argument that Turkish German humour has moved from margin to mainstream by intervening in cultural incompatibility and Islamophobia discourse. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
The Changing Faces of Citizenship
"In contrast to most migration studies that focus on specific "foreigner" groups in Germany, this study simultaneously compares and contrasts the legal, political, social, and economic opportunity structures facing diverse categories of the ethnic minorities who have settled in the country since the 1950s. It reveals the contradictory, and usually self-defeating, nature of German policies intended to keep "migrants" out - allegedly in order to preserve a German Leitkultur (with which very few of its own citizens still identify). The main barriers to effective integration - and socioeconomic revitalization in general - sooner lie in the country's obsolete labor market regulations and bureaucratic procedures. Drawing on local case studies, personal interviews, and national surveys, the author describes "the human faces" behind official citizenship and integration practices in Germany, and in doing so demonstrates that average citizens are much more multi-cultural than they realize."--BOOK JACKET.
Europe's Promise
Argues that Europe has produced a viable structure for economic security, environmental sustainability, and global stability since the end of World War II and encourages other countries to adopt their methods to improve their own economic and political systems.
From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany in 1989/90 were events of world-historical significance. The twentieth anniversary of this juncture represents an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the evolution of the new Berlin Republic. Given the on-going significance of the country for theory and concept–building in many disciplines, an in-depth examination of the case is essential. In this volume, unique in its focus on all aspects of contemporary Germany - culture, historiography, society, politics and the economy - top scholars offer their assessments of the country’s performance in these and other areas and analyze the successes and continued challenges.
The EU-German-Turkish Triangle
Um eine solide Bewertung der Beziehungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei und ihrer Zukunftsaussichten zu ermöglichen, konzentriert sich dieser Band auf die Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen dem Block und der Türkei einerseits und den bilateralen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei andererseits. Auf der Grundlage des historischen Institutionalismus geht er von der Annahme aus, dass eine grundlegende Umstrukturierung der Beziehungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei "kritische Wendepunkte" erfordert, die einen "Paradigmenwechsel" nach sich ziehen. Es wird der politische Diskurs über die Beziehungen zwischen der EU und der Türkei dekonstruiert, um die wichtigsten Wahrnehmungen und Narra...
Struggling for Recognition
As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany’s Turkish immigrant population. In a departure from the current debate on identity and diaspora, Sökefeld offers a rich account of the emergence and institutionalization of the Alevi movement in Germany, giving particular attention to its politics of recognition within Germany and in a transnational context. The book deftly combines empirical findings with innovative theoretical arguments and addresses current questions of migration, diaspora, transnationalism, and identity.
