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Migration From Turkey to Germany: An Ethnic Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

İbrahim Sirkeci
İbrahim Sirkeci*
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Faculty of Management, Atılım University, Ankara
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Ülkemin ırmakları dışarı akar

Neden bilmem can havliyle akar…

(Cemal Süreya, 1988)

(The rivers of my country are flowing out

Frightened to death they flow, I know not why…)

The growth in the numbers of asylum seekers to Western European countries over the past decade (Castles and Loughna, 2002) has underlined the significance of “political” and other non-economic factors in shaping migration flows, drawing attention to the inadequacy of theoretical explanations based on socio-economic differentials. The need to reassess earlier research on labor flows to take into account the existence of migrants obliged to flee from situations involving political persecution has become apparent, whether the migrants be directly or personally a target of persecution or whether they feel threatened by association for reasons of ethnicity, geography, etc. My main aim in this article is to raise the issue of the role of “Kurdish ethnicity” as one instance of such political forces in shaping migration flows from Turkey to Germany. During the 1970s and 1980s, research on patterns of migration between the two countries was almost exclusively concerned with the “incorporation of guest workers” into German labor markets and the contribution of their remittances to the Turkish economy.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 29: Special Issue: Forty Years of Turkish Migration to Germany , Spring-Fall 2003 , pp. 189 - 207
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