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Guest lecture by Ayşe Çağlar (University of Vienna and IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna)
The sociologist and anthropologist Ayşe Çağlar was among the first in the 1990s to call time on essentialist ethnic and cultural understandings of migrant - especially Turkish - minorities in Germany. To explain the discrepancies between economic integration and cultural seclusion among the "German Turks," she turned her attention to their cross-border social space and their social exclusion in Germany, and to the cultural-social and economic strategies - connecting many places including Turkey and Germany - that they employed for upward social mobility. Since then, the renunciation of methodological nationalism and the adoption of transnational views on migration and diaspora have produced a plethora of new research and new insights. In her lecture, Ayşe Çağlar looks back on the questions dominating the scholarship and public debates in the 1990s through the lens of a beginning, and asks how the "transnational migration paradigm" shifted these but remained limited to develop a global perspective.
This event took place in the frame of and with support from the Mellon-funded Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education
Recorded on November 7, 2019 at Bard College Berlin
More information: https://berlin.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=136961
Guest lecture by Ayşe Çağlar (University of Vienna and IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna)
The sociologist and anthropologist Ayşe Çağlar was among the first in the 1990s to call time on essentialist ethnic and cultural understandings of migrant - especially Turkish - minorities in Germany. To explain the discrepancies between economic integration and cultural seclusion among the "German Turks," she turned her attention to their cross-border social space and their social exclusion in Germany, and to the cultural-social and economic strategies - connecting many places including Turkey and Germany - that they employed for upward social mobility. Since then, the renunciation of methodological nationalism and the adoption of transnational views on migration and diaspora have produced a plethora of new research and new insights. In her lecture, Ayşe Çağlar looks back on the questions dominating the scholarship and public debates in the 1990s through the lens of a beginning, and asks how the "transnational migration paradigm" shifted these but remained limited to develop a global perspective.
This event took place in the frame of and with support from the Mellon-funded Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education
Recorded on November 7, 2019 at Bard College Berlin
More information: https://berlin.bard.edu/news/events/event/?eid=136961
