From: “[iso-8859-1] Bes\u00fdm Can ZIRH”
\nList Editor: Mark Stein
\nEditor’s Subject: H-TURK: New Book: Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany [B C Zirh]
\nAuthor’s Subject: H-TURK: New Book: Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany [B C Zirh]
\nDate Written: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:59:36 -0400
\nDate Posted: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:59:36 -0400<\/p>\n
Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany
\nRuth Mandel, Duke University Press.<\/p>\n
In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany\u2019s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades
\nof ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany\u2019s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have been charged, inconsistent, and resonant of past problematic encounters with a Jewish \u201cother.\u201d Mandel examines the tensions in Germany between race-based ideologies of blood and belonging on the one hand and ambitions of multicultural tolerance and cosmopolitanism on the other. She does so by juxtaposing the experiences of Turkish immigrants, Jews, and \u201cethnic Germans\u201d in relation to issues including Islam, Germany\u2019s Nazi past, and its radically altered position as a unified country in the post\u2013Cold War era.<\/p>\n
Mandel explains that within Germany the popular understanding of what it means to be German is often conflated with citizenship, so that a German citizen of Turkish background can never
\nbe a \u201creal German.\u201d This conflation of blood and citizenship was dramatically illustrated when, during the 1990s, nearly two million \u201cethnic Germans\u201d from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union arrived in Germany with a legal and social status far superior to that of \u201cTurks\u201d who had lived in the country for decades. Mandel analyzes how representations of Turkish difference are appropriated or rejected by Turks living in Germany; how subsequent generations of Turkish immigrants are exploring new configurations of identity and citizenship through literature, film, hip-hop, and fashion; and how migrants returning to Turkey find themselves fundamentally changed by their experiences in Germany. She maintains that until difference is accepted as unproblematic, there will continue to be serious tension regarding resident foreigners, despite recurrent attempts to realize a more inclusive and \u201cdemotic\u201d cosmopolitan vision of Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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