I am continuing my blog post 4, with Turkish Migrants: Germany is a home to many Turkish migrants. After World War II, Germany was split between the West (Allies-United States, France, United Kingdom), and the East which was controlled by the Soviet Union. The Allies, including Turkey were part of NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. […]
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Educational Outcomes for Migrants in Germany: Part III
This Part 3 of my exploration into educational outcomes for migrants. You can find Part I and Part II here. In this post, I will be looking specifically at outcomes for migrants in Germany – how do migrants fare educationally in comparison with German natives? Education is seen as a way in which migrant families […]
Germany’s little Turkey: Disagreements
Since the 1960s, there have been an influx of Turkish people in Germany, who came to work and send money back home. Today there are more than 7 million people of direct Turkish descent or who have Turkish roots. The Turks have felt more discriminated against even in their “German neighborhood” called Keupstrasse in Cologne, […]
Diaspora Diplomats: Harnessing Indian and Turkish Youth Activism
With the US elections coming to a close, revolutions propping up in various international regions, and other election cycles running their courses around the globe, it’s safe to say that the youth of the world has never been more politically active. From social media trends to on the ground activism, young people are actively shaping, […]
Assimilation and Belonging: Identity in Migrant Accounts
In our very first class, we discussed why migration tends to elicit such big emotions. Why is the topic of migration, for example, such an emotive political issue in the United States? De Haas says that migration is contentious and emotive because it conjures up themes of belonging and identity, both of which are very […]
The question: to migrate or to not migrate? Both exude agency, both are controlled by structures.
Gender is an important dimension of migration. Female migration workers in the past have been dismissed and defined through the patriarchal structures of society as wife, mother, and dependent on the male breadwinner. Through different aspects of international migration, however, these structures and prescribed gender roles have been slowly challenged through traditional family models, and […]
Do Economies Have to Boom for Migration to Happen?
Once countries started recovering from the devastation of WWII, economies needed to be rebuilt. The USSR had built its command economy around the idea of high levels of extensive growth achieved by a division of labor between countries in Eastern Europe (Comecon) and industrialization. This depended on large amounts of labor as extensive growth meant […]
Turkish Migration to Germany & the Netherlands
I read Rinus Penninx’s A Critical Review of Theory and Practice: The Case of Turkey with interest, as I have heard quite a lot about Turkish migration to Germany and the Netherlands in recent years, but knew very little about its origins. I am particularly interested in the social and political aspects of migration, but […]
Overview: German Policy for Migrants and Families in 20th century Europe
This is commenting on “Family Policy and Labor Migration in East and West Germany” by Paul Adams in 1989. After World War II there was a great influx of migration in Europe and the Soviet Union. This was particularly concentrated in Germany, which was split between the democratic west (Federal Republic of Germany), and the […]
Guestworkers Needed: A Comparative Look at Post World War II Germans at Home & Abroad
In The Age of Migration, Hein De Haas takes the reader on a journey into the Guestworker Program in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) that arose in the 1950s. This allowed the FRG to recruit millions of foreign workers over two decades to accommodate the labor needed due to industrial expansion and low birth […]