Author
Rottmann, Susan Beth
Publication Date
2018-08-01
Publication Place
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Sage
Subject
Belonging, Citizenship, Ethics, Justice, Migration
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
0921-3740
Record ID
17cb7aac-f953-4088-a2b3-6466411ea85a
Library Location
Humanities and Social Sciences
Date
2018-08-01
Notes
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program ; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research ; American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) ; Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) ; Social Science Research Council (SSRC) ; Center for German and European Studies (CGES) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sample Text
This article examines citizenship for German-Turkish return migrants attending monthly meetings of the Rückkehrer Stammtisch (Returner’s Meetings) in Istanbul. Meeting attendees call themselves “world citizens” and remain deeply concerned about disrespect and inequality they experience as ethnic minorities in Germany and as citizens in Turkey. Drawing on the anthropology of ethics, this research demonstrates the importance of ethical relationships for understanding these migrants’ experience of citizenship. Moving beyond work that views citizenship primarily in terms of state power and legal disciplining, this research demonstrates that citizenship for these migrants is focused heavily on an ethics of care and responsibility developed in the course of personal interactions with fellow citizens. This article also adds ethnographic specificity to the concepts of belonging and justice. It analyzes how ethical relationships established among meeting attendees confer feelings of comfort, intimacy, and a sense of shared humanity that structure migrants’ inclusion in national spaces.
DOI
10.1177/0921374018795074
Cilt
30
