Routledge Handbook of Turkey's Diasporas

Ayca Arkilic is Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests are state-diaspora relations and Islam in the West. She is the author of Diaspora Diplomacy: The Politics of Turkish Emigration to Europe (2022). Banu Senay is Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at the School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the author of Beyond Turkey's Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics, and the Turkish Diaspora (2013) and Musical Ethics and Islam: The Art of Playing the Ney (2020).

1. Turkey’s Diasporas and Diaspora Policymaking in Flux: An Introduction Part I: Contextualising Turkey’s Diasporas: Past and Present 2. Moving Populations: The Foundations of Diaspora in the Early Republic of Turkey 3. From ‘Guest-Workers’ to ‘Muslims’: Representations of Turkish-Origin Migrants in Europe 4. A History of Turkish Guest Workers in Germany 5. The Making of New Diasporic Communities?: Post-2000 Migration from Turkey to Europe 6. Migration and Citizenship Regimes in Europe: The Meandering Path to Dual Citizenship in Germany and the Netherlands 7. The Diaspora Paradox: Methodological Nationalism, Methodological Amnesia, Challenges, and Interventions Part II: Localisation, Transnational Belongings, and Identity 8. Constantinopolitans in the Diaspora of the City: The Global Community of Rum Polites of Istanbul 9. Enforced Departures, Anxious Arrivals: A Turkish Diaspora in Israel 10. The Formation of a Kurdish Diaspora and Transnational Politics 11. The Alevi Movement in Europe: A Collective Struggle for Visibility, Rights, and Recognition 12. The Turkish Muslim Field in Western Europe Part III: Governing Diasporas 13. Turkey’s Diaspora Engagement Policies: Past and Present 14. State-Sponsored Transnational Religious Fields: The Case of the Diyanet 15. Turkey’s Diaspora Youth Diplomacy 16. Unpacking the State from the Inside Out: Emerging Spaces and Actors of Diaspora Governance in the Border Province of Edirne 17. Non-resident Citizen Voting and Transnational Mobilisation of Political Parties: The Case of Turkey 18. Turkish Immigrant-origin Political Parties in Europe: The Case of DENK in the Netherlands 19. How has Turkey Re-fashioned its Diaspora Engagement Policy during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Part IV: Micro-spaces and Everyday Practices 20. “Mosques are life itself there”: The Social Lives of Turkish-Sunni Mosques in Germany 21. Performance, Advocacy, and Transnational Networks of Solidarity for Turkish-Speaking Queer Migrants in Berlin 22. Whose Neighbourhood, Whose City, Whose Country? Visible and Invisible Turkish Diasporic Spaces in Berlin and New York City 23. Post-Migration Society and Turkish Football Clubs in Berlin 24. Marriage Trajectories of Turkey-originated Youth in Europe 25. Lending Circles: A Solidarity Practice Among Migrant Women from Turkey in Germany Part V: Cultural Production, Aesthetics, and Creativity 26. Turkish Rap Music, Made in Germany: Origins, History, and Identity 27. A Marketplace of Love: Muhabbet and the Construction of European Alevi Imaginaries 28. Cinematographic Expressions of Diasporic Experience: Decades of Turkish-German Cinema 29. Writing Home and Selves in Diaspora: Narratives, Texts, and Practices 30. Graphic Politics: Resistance and Community Building through Comics Activism among Turkey’s Diaspora(s) 31. From Berlin to the Globe: The Transnational Story of Döner Kebab Part VI: Country-Specific Perspectives 32. Turkey’s Diaspora in Germany: A Transnational Community Divided between Transnational Integration and Distant-Nationalism 33. The “Turkish” Community in France: An Influential Branch of the Diaspora 34. Political Participation and Representation of Dutch Citizens with Roots in Turkey 35. Alevi Kurds in the United Kingdom: Community Formation, Visibility, and Integration 36. United We Divide: Turkey’s Hyper-Polarised Diaspora in the USA 37. Turkey’s Diasporas Down Under: Migration to Australia and New Zealand