Nermin Abadan-Unat graduated from Istanbul Law Faculty in 1944 and then pursued graduate studies at the University of Minnesota. She has taught at both Ankara University and Istanbul University and served as a visiting professor at the University of Munich, The City University of New York, Denver University, Georgetown University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. At present she teaches at Bog¿aziçi University. Her publications in English include Turkish Workers in Europe (1976) with R. Keles¿ et al., Migration and Development (1976), and Women in Turkish Society (1981).

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Foreword to the German Edition

Foreword to the English Edition

by Stephen Castles

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Text

Introduction

Chapter 1. Phases of Turkish Emigration

• 1950s Individual Enterprise
• 1960s State Controlled "Surplus Labor Export"
• 1970s Stop of Recruitment Amnesty for Illegal Workers Unification of Families
• 1980s Child Education Growth of Associations Rise in Demands for Asylum
• 1990s New Foreigners Law Xenophobia Identity Debates
• Transfer of Currency and Savings
• Village Development Cooperatives
• Worker Investment Companies

Chapter 2. Turkish Migration to the Middle East and Russia

• Characteristics of Middle East Countries
• Turkish Labor Flow to the Middle East
• Migration to CIS Countries and Russia

Chapter 3. Empirical Research

• a)1963 West Germany Survey
• b)1975 Bogazliyan Research: Migration and Development

Chapter 4. Migrant Women

• Women's Economic Participation and Control of the Family Budget
• Effect of Migration on Women in the Homeland
• Marriage Migration
• Internationalization of Honor killings

Chapter 5. Education of Second- and Third-Generation Migrants

• Family Reunification and Children
• Allowances

Chapter 6. Civil Society and Islam

• Islamic Associations
• Federation of European Alevite Unions (AABF)
• Accommodation of Islamic claims
• Headscarf Issue
• Islamophobia and Euro-Islam
• Institutionalization vs. Individualization of Islam

Chapter 7. Ethnic Communities and Ethnic Business

• Migration and Changing Paradigms
• Ethnic Communities
• Ethnic Enterprises

Chapter 8. Citizenship and Political Participation

• Naturalization
• Forms of Political Participation in Selected European Countries
• Political Associations of Migrants

Chapter 9. Political and Economic Asylum Movements and Xenophobia

• Political and Economic Asylum Movements: Xenophobia
• Migration and Asylum in Post-1980 Germany
• Xenophobia and Enmity towards Foreigners
• Xenophobic behavior directed at Turks
• Asylum Seekers from Turkey and Their Organizations
• Kurdish Organizations in Germany
• Migrants, Asylum Seekers, and Diaspora
• Media consumption habits among Euro-Turks
• Preference for visual media

Chapter 10. Attitudes to the EU: Euro-Turks and Eurosceptics

• Homeland and the Host Country
• Integration/Assimilation
• Formation of New Identities
• Turkish Public Opinion and the EU: the Eurosceptics

Chapter 11. Globalization, Migration, and the Nation-State

• Control of Differences
• Multiculturalism
• Transnational Communities
• Globalization, Migration and Paradoxes
• Outlook

Appendix

Selected Bibliography