Transnational Politics The case of Turks and Kurds in Germany [Hardcover]

Using the Turkish and Kurdish communities in Germany as a case study, this book offers a unique analysis of trans-state political loyalties and activities of transnational communities and their political ramifications at both national and international levels.

1. Introduction  2. Migrants' Transnational Claim-Making: Rethinking Concepts and Theories  3. Migration, Transnational Spaces and German-Turkish Relations  4. Between Homeland Political and Immigrant Political Mobilization  5. From Confrontational to Multi-Layered Strategies: Turkish and Kurdish Information Campaigns in Germany  6. Thresholds of Tolerance: Turkish Politics within German Political Institutions  7. From 'Remittance Machines' to 'Euro Turks': Turkey's Changing Perception of Turkish Citizens Abroad  8. Conclusions

'Convincingly challenges the 'zero-sum' assumption about migrants' political activities in their host and home societies and demonstrates successfully the intermingling of the German and the Homeland agenda of the differenrt organizations.'- Gregoire Delhaye,Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

'Ostergaard-Nielsen has made a great research effort into producing this book, collecting an admirable variety of information about Kurdish, Turkish and Islamic organisations in Germany and detailing their aims and agenda.'- Derya Bayir, European Masters in Human Rights Programme, Venice.

Eva Østergaard-Nielsenis Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Politics. She has published on the subject of diasporas and the political participation of migrants