Turkish origin migrants and their descendant, hyphenated identities in transnational space by AyhanKaya, PalgraveMacmillan, 2019, 173 pp., Palgrave Pivot, $55.29: ISBN 978‐3‐319‐94994‐9

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-256
Author(s):  
Bahar Ayça Okçuoğlu
2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Vera Eccarius-Kelly

The article examines trends in voting preferences and voting behavior of Turkish-origin German voters. Despite only representing a small percentage of the total German electorate, Turkish-origin voters are gaining an opportunity to shape the future political landscape. While the Social Democrats have benefited most directly from the minority constituency so far, this author suggests that the Green Party is poised to attract the younger, better educated, and German-born segment of the Turkish-origin voters. All other dominant national parties have ignored this emerging voting bloc, and missed opportunities to appeal to Turkish-origin voters by disregarding community-specific interests. 


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-280
Author(s):  
Mustafa Murat Yüceşahin

Yakın zamanlı ve çeşitli tahminler başka ülkelerde yaşayan Türkiye kökenli göçmenlerin kabaca 5 ila 6 milyon kadar ama başka ülkelerden gelip Türkiye’de bulunan göçmenlerin-sığınmacıların 3 ila 4 milyon dolayında bir büyüklüğe eriştiğini gösteriyor.  Bu her iki kaba tahmini bir araya getirdiğimizde Türkiye’yi ilgilendirecek şekilde toplamda 8-10 milyon arasında bir uluslararası göçmen büyüklüğünün oluşumu oldukça dikkat çekici. Elbette bu büyüklük, uluslararası hareketlere katılan Türkiye kökenli veya Türkiye’ye gelip yerleşen göçmenelere ilişkin kesin verilerin üretimi ile netlik kazanacaktır. Ama bunların da ötesinde bu büyüklük, artık Türkiye’nin milyonları yurt dışına göndermekte olduğunu ve başka ülkelerden Türkiye’ye yönelen milyonlarca insanı da barındırdığını söylemeye yetiyor. Bu önemli bilgiyi geçtiğimiz Haziran ayında Çek Cumhuriyeti’nin başkenti Prag’da düzenlenen Türk Göç Konferansı 2015’te sunulan pek çok bildiri de doğruluyor. Bu yazımda, söz konusu konferansın hem bir katılımcısı hem de düzenleme komitesinin bir üyesi olarak; konferansın çeşitli boyutlarına ilişkin gözlemlerimi aktaracak şekilde bir değerlendirme yapmayı ve konferansa özgü önemli çıktılara değinmeyi amaçlıyorum. ENGLISH ABSTRACTConference Report: Turkish Migration Conference 2015, Prague, Czech Republic More recent and other estimations indicate that the number of immigrants who are originally from Turkey is roughly about 5 to 6 millions while those who moved to Turkey from other countries reach about 3 to 4 millions. When these two figures are added together about 8 to 10 million international migrants appear asa striking fact. Of course, these numbers will only be accurate when such data is produced on the number of Turkish origin immigrants and immigrants in Turkey. However, beyond this, Turkey has been sending millions abroad and now receiving millions from other countries too. This has been marked by several papers presented at the Turkish Migration Conference which was held at Prague, the capital of Czech Republic in June 2015. In this paper, I am discussing the outputs, as well as several aspects and features of this conference where I was both a member of the organisation committee and a presenting participant.


Confectionery sunflower - a special area of use of sunflower, which requires the creation of marketable seeds quality features. One of the possible ways to create large-fruited sunflower is to create production hybrids and lines. Objective: to evaluate the created new large-fruited sunflower lines by a complex of morphological characters and determine the best lines for use as large-seeds hybrids as parent components or source material. In 2016-2019 years on the basis of the Institute of Oilseed Crops NAAS a study was conducted to assess the economic characteristics of large-fruited sunflower lines. We studied a collection of 27 lines of large-seeds sources. The lines were created by direct selection or crossing and sampling: Reyny of Argentinean origin, Zaporizhzhya confectionery variety, confectionery hybrid with striped pericarp color of Israeli origin, white seed of Turkish origin, synthetic population - donor of complex resistance. To study from the collection, lines were drawn that went through at least 7 generations with selection for seed size. Experience has shown that the shortest growing season for lines 174d and KP11 was 99 days, and the longest for lines I2K670 was 109 days. In the studied collection, the greatest mass of 1000 seeds has the KP11-146.47g line, which is the mother component and does not have branching. The second by weight of 1000 seeds (109 g) stood out line 168v, which also had branches and pollen fertility restoration genes and will be used as the paternal form. The third largest is also one basket line ZKN51-100. The collection included lines originating from the same combination, but with a different morphotype for the presence and absence of branching. So, based on the combination of KP11 x Zaporizhzhya Confectionery, three lines were obtained. A mass of 1000 seeds was observed in 98-86 g, with the branching line having the largest mass of 1000 seeds. The lines created with one combination VK678 x ZKN32: with a branch 168a had a mass of 1000 seeds 95g, and a line 168b - without a branch 109 g. Of the two lines obtained from the descendants of the combination KP11 x the striped hybrid both had branches, but the seeds were much smaller (weight of 1000 seeds 59 and 79 g). The collection also studied samples created on the basis of varieties and populations 160c, 174, 175b, the mass of 1000 seeds of which turned out to be more acceptable for large-fruited use from 83 to 99 g. Summing up the results of studying the collection of newly created lines, we can highlight the lines 162d, 168v, 175b, KP11 that are potentially promising for use in hybrids. The selections showed that large-fruited lines can be obtained from large-fruited varieties, self-pollination of large-fruited hybrids and crossing lines with hybrids and varieties. Self-pollination and selection of large-fruited lines in several generations does not provide the necessary variability for positive changes in selections. The result of the selection by weight of 1000 seeds in the offspring from crosses and from populations creates opportunities for new large-seeds sunflower.


Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Saskia Huc-Hepher

In this article, an interdisciplinary lens is applied to French migrants’ reflections on their everyday language practices, investigating how embodied and embedded language, such as accent and London-French translanguaging, serve as both in-group and out-group symbolic markers in different transnational spaces. Key sociological concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu are deployed, including field, habitus, hysteresis and symbolic capital, to assess the varying symbolic conversion rates of the migrants’ languaging practices across transnational spaces. A mixed-methodological and analytical approach is taken, combining narratives from ethnographic interviews and autobiography. Based on the data gathered, the article posits that the French accent is an embodied symbolic marker, experienced as an internalised dialectic: a barrier to inclusion/belonging in London and an escape from the symbolic weight of the originary accent in France. Subsequently, it argues that the migrants’ translanguaging functions as a spontaneous insider vernacular conducive to community identity construction in the postmigration space, but (mis)interpreted as an exclusionary articulation of symbolic distinction in the premigration context. Finally, the article asks whether participants’ linguistic repertoires, self-identifications and spatialities go beyond the notion of the ‘cleft habitus’, or even hybridity, to a post-structural, translanguaging third space that transcends borders.


Author(s):  
Saipira Furstenberg ◽  
Edward Lemon ◽  
John Heathershaw

Abstract This article theorises the repressive security practices of authoritarian states in the context of transnationalism and globalisation. While emerging research on transnational repression has identified a range of extraterritorial and exceptional security practices adopted by authoritarian states, it has not fully studied the implications of such practices on space and statecraft. Using data from the Central Asia Political Exile Database project (CAPE) and interviews conducted with exiled Tajik opposition groups based in Russia and Europe, we theorise the spatial connections between the territorial and extraterritorial security practices using the concept of assemblages. We further outline how these practices escalate in a three-stage model, in which exiles go on notice, are detained and then rendered or assassinated. Such an approach sheds light on the inherent links between the normalisation of security practices and the creation of transnational space with distinct forms of geographical state power that is embedded in non-national spaces and is manifested through spatially organised actors, networks, and technologies within assemblages.


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeynep Tunalier ◽  
Nurcan T. Candan ◽  
Betul Demirci ◽  
K. Husnu Can Baser

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Prasad ◽  
Srirupa Prasad

Information Technology (IT) ‘outsourcing,’ of which medical transcription in India is a part, has received relatively little attention from geographers. Most often, it has been bracketed more broadly within IT and its role in transforming transnational space-time configurations has been analyzed. IT outsourcing, more specifically, medical transcription outsourcing, which is the focus of this article, is not only marked by tensions, hierarchies, and ambivalences, it also reflects an emergent ‘imaginative geography’ of neoliberal globalization. This imaginative geography, as we argue in this article, is deceptively ambiguous because of its ambivalent articulation. Medical transcription outsourcing, for example, seems to operate on two contradictory registers, particularly in the United States and some European nations from where outsourcing to countries such as India is taking place. There is an acknowledgement and even celebration of the ‘flattening’ and inter-connectedness of different parts of the world, even while there is widespread criticism and fear of these transnational activities, as well as that of the non-western people engaged in them. The criticism and fear are often articulated in relation to instances of data theft. Nevertheless, a closer look shows that there is something more going on. We argue that such discursive constructions exemplify an imaginative geography that is rooted in an ambivalent desire for a reformed and recognizable ‘other’ who could be ‘best global citizens.’ This ambivalence undergirds a forked biopolitical strategy, which seeks to make the neoliberal worker docile and yet continually marks him/her as dangerous. We call this biopolitical strategy colonial governmentality to signify its forked operation as an art of government that seeks to define agenda/non-agenda (and not population or people), but continually draws upon colonial distinctions and practices.


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