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 struggle to forge an ethical life by relating the experiences of a second-generation German-Turkish woman named Leyla.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: At Home in European-Turkish Space
Chapter 1. Making a Living in Illegal German-Turkish Call Centers
Chapter 2. The Circumcision Celebration: Motherhood and Ethical Transformations
Chapter 3. A ‘Man From a Village” and a ‘European Girl”: Love and a Life Together
Chapter 4. Shaping a Community: A Dream Comes True
Chapter 5. Being and Becoming Muslim
Conclusion: In Pursuit of Belonging
Appendix I: Leyla’s Memoir Study Guide
Appendix II: Leyla’s Memoir
References
Index
About the author
Susan Beth Rottmann is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Faculty at Özyeğin University where she is researching forced migration in Europe and Turkey.
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