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Examine how the long-term process of transnational migration and return between Turkey and Germany reshapes family structures, identities, and social hierarchies across generations.

May 19, 2020Ethnic and Racial StudiesOpen Access

Transnational return and social change: hierarchies, identities and ideas

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Examine how the long-term process of transnational migration and return between Turkey and Germany reshapes family structures, identities, and social hierarchies across generations.
Qualitative cross-generational investigation tracking Turkish-German migrant networks and multi-generational family units.
Analysis of family trajectories, identity renegotiation, and ideological transfers across borders over time.
Transnational movement and return migration substantively reconfigure traditional familial and status hierarchies between origin and destination communities.
Cross-border life trajectories foster the transfer and adaptation of new social ideas, norms, and hybrid cultural identities within extended family networks.

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Qualitative study observes shifts in hierarchies and identities in Turkish-German migrant families, highlighting transnational drivers of long-term social change.

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In 2014, I was part of a research project initiated by Thomas Faist on the question of how the process of migration from Turkey to Germany changed the lives of individuals from the same families ov...

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Besim Can Zırh (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1db8c3c475d657bb4db8aa https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1766694

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Qualitative study observes shifts in hierarchies and identities in Turkish-German migrant families, highlighting transnational drivers of long-term social change.

Transnational return and social change: hierarchies, identities and ideas

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Transnational return and social change: hierarchies, identities and ideas

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