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Author Kahn, Michelle Lynn, author

Title Foreign in two homelands : racism, return migration, and Turkish-German history / Michelle Lynn Kahn, University of Richmond
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource
Series Publications of the German Historical Institute
Contents Introduction: The woman with the German house -- Sex, lies, and abandoned families -- Vacations across Cold War Europe -- Remittance machines -- Racism in Hitler's shadow -- The mass exodus -- Unhappy in the homeland -- Epilogue: The final return?
Summary "Between 1961 and 1973 Turkish migrants were recruited as guest-workers in Germany, becoming West Germany's largest ethnic minority. This transnational history explores their experiences, emphasizing German racism and the estrangement faced by those who remigrated in the following decades, and reveals how many came to feel foreign in two homelands"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Turks -- Germany (West) -- Social conditions
Foreign workers -- Germany (West) -- Social conditions
Racism -- Germany (West)
Turks -- Migrations.
SUBJECT Germany (West) -- Ethnic relations
Germany (West) -- Race relations
Germany (West) -- Emigration and immigration
Turkey -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023057630
ISBN 9781009486682
1009486683