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Struggling for Recognition: The Alevi Movement in Germany and in Transnational Space

Struggling for Recognition: The Alevi Movement in Germany and in Transnational Space

Sökefeld, Martin

Hardcover

AnthropologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1845454782
ISBN13: 9781845454784
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: May 1 2008
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany's Turkish immigrant population. In a departure from the current debate on identity and diaspora, Sökefeld offers a rich account of the emergence and institutionalization of the Alevi movement in Germany, giving particular attention to its politics of recognition within Germany and in a transnational context. The book deftly combines empirical findings with innovative theoretical arguments and addresses current questions of migration, diaspora, transnationalism, and identity.

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