Friday, December 19, 2008

Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany

"Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany

In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have been charged, inconsistent, and resonant of past problematic encounters with a Jewish “other.” 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."

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