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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/19370| Title: | Strategies of Identity Formation Youth of Turkish Descent in Germany |
| Authors: | Dr Frank Welz Prof Ari Sitas Mehdi, Ali |
| Keywords: | Strategies of Identity Formation |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Publisher: | SpringerVS |
| Description: | This is a qualitative study which deals with identity as negotiated and articulated by youth born to Turkish parents in Gennany. All part of a community of seven million descendants of immigrant ancestry, they are ''trying to find their own place and identity on the cultural and ethnic map of Europe" (Liebkind 1989: I). What calls for a common characterisation is their predicament of living between, to use Aziza-A'sl term, "two fat cultores" (Watzinger-Tharp 2004: 291) - one of their family, the other of the host society. Many straddle in both, but belong to none. They are "a tree with leaves and branches but without roots" (VetetoConrad 1996: 28), with a 'cultore's in-between' (Bhabha 2002), or an "imagined community" (Anderson 1991), blurring the boundaries, and experimenting with a blend, of civilizations |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/19370 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-531-18681-8 |
| Appears in Collections: | Gender |
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