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Extranational spaces and the disruption of national boundaries: Turkish immigrant media and claims against the state in 1980s West Germany
Author(s) -
Foerster Amy,
Miller Jennifer
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/nana.12298
Subject(s) - turkish , immigration , west germany , german , newspaper , political science , politics , treaty , state (computer science) , immigration policy , economic history , economy , sociology , law , economics , history , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
After the 1980 coup that shook Turkey and almost twenty years after the bilateral ‘guest worker’ treaty shifted Germany's demographic make‐up, West German policy makers proposed increasingly restrictive regulations on the ‘guest workers’ who had heavily contributed to West Germany's economy. In this crucial historical moment, Turkish‐language newspapers, published in West Germany, created a politically motivated extranational public sphere in which they launched claims against both the West German and Turkish states. These claims shaped immigration and integration policy between the two countries, fostered diasporic activism and cross‐national religious and political organisations and gave rise to a variety of unexpected organisational outcomes that continue to impact both Germany and the Turkish Republic.