In Pursuit of Belonging

Susan Beth Rottmann

ISBN 10: 1789202698 / ISBN 13: 9781789202694

Published by Berghahn Books, GB, 2019

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Pursuit of Belonging
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789202698
• ISBN 13: 9781789202694
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

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.