| Variant title |
Immigrants and expatriates between politics and culture |
| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Turks in the United States; The Turks in America; Literature about the Turkish Immigration to the United States of America; Politics of Migrant Belonging; Adaptation and Integration Process of First Generation Turkish Americans and Turks Living in the United States; The Mosque Community of Turkish Tailors in Massachusetts; Contemporary Turkish-American Writers and Their Work; Americans in Turkey; "America makes me stronger"; "One sees it better from a distance" |
| Abstract |
"This collection of essays discusses various aspects of the experiences of Turkish immigrants in the United States, and of US expatriates in Turkey. It explores the predicament of the Turkish-American element on US soil, in a manner paralleling already existent disciplines such as Italian-American Studies and German-American Studies, and assembles disparate research on the subject. As such, it will serve to herald in print the launching of a new paradigm, Turkish-American Studies.The volume fits within transnational American Studies, but also develops its own approach, which is what constitutes"--Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Turkish-American conundrum. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholar Publishing, [2019] 9781527531468 |
| ISBN | 1527524280 |
| ISBN | 9781527524286 (hardback) |
