A critical analysis of transnationalism : the case of Turkish migrants living in Berlin

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Çelik, Çetin

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This thesis tries to explore the effects of socio-economic status, gender and generation of Turkish migrants living in Berlin on their participation into transnational social fields established between Berlin and Turkey. In addition to this, evaluating transnational approaches used in international migration studies critically and acquiring a critical transnational perspective in the context of global capitalism are also in the interest areas of this study. This study is based on a qualitative field research conducted with 30 Turkish migrants in Berlin in 2006. This study maintains that, as well as global restructuring of global capitalism, new technological advances and nation state policies, migrants’ socio-economic status, gender and generation differences are vital elements to understand the way and content of transnational social fields in daily life of migrants. This study concludes that, apart from being liberatory, nation- state- based inequalities are reproduced in transnational social fields in macro and micro levels as dependent on migrants’ socio economic status, gender and generation differences.

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General social sciences

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16911

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Ç. Çelik, “A critical analysis of transnationalism : the case of Turkish migrants living in Berlin ,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.