Extranational spaces and the disruption of national boundaries: Turkish immigrant media and claims against the state in 1980s West Germany |
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Authors: | Amy Foerster Jennifer Miller |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Pace University, New York, New York, USA;2. Department of Historical Studies, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA |
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Abstract: | After the 1980 coup that shook Turkey and almost twenty years after the bilateral ‘guest worker’ treaty shifted Germany's demographic make‐up, West German policy makers proposed increasingly restrictive regulations on the ‘guest workers’ who had heavily contributed to West Germany's economy. In this crucial historical moment, Turkish‐language newspapers, published in West Germany, created a politically motivated extranational public sphere in which they launched claims against both the West German and Turkish states. These claims shaped immigration and integration policy between the two countries, fostered diasporic activism and cross‐national religious and political organisations and gave rise to a variety of unexpected organisational outcomes that continue to impact both Germany and the Turkish Republic. |
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Keywords: | ethno‐exclusivist regime Germany immigrant and diasporic media immigrant claims‐making immigration and integration Turkey |
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