In Pursuit of Belonging: Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces

by Susan Beth Rottmann

Book Overview

Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of Turkish migrants' struggle for understanding, intimacy and appreciation when they return from Germany to their Turkish homeland. Drawing on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology, Rottmann conveys the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789202698
• ISBN13: 9781789202694
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"