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Turks in the New Germany
Author(s) -
White Jenny B.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1997.99.4.754
Subject(s) - turkish , ethnic group , german , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , gender studies , sociology , immigration , political science , history , anthropology , law , archaeology , philosophy , linguistics
The Turkish community in Germany is fractured along ethnic, class, religious, and generational lines, although the practice of reciprocity provides stability and continuity in ethnic identification. Turks are also categorized by German discourses, which shifted after reunification, incorporating Turks into an anxiety‐laden east‐west problematic. Turkish responses to antiforeigner violence reflect ethnicity both as category and as practice: withdrawal behind communal boundaries or creation of a transnational creole ethnic self around the practice of reciprocity.