Entries Tagged 'Turkish immigrants' ↓

Today I had my first meeting with a German politician.  Ekin Deligöz has been a member of parliament for the Green Party since 1998 and has focused on child and family policies.  On top of that, she is originally from Turkey, so this interview was especially insightful because she knows immigration issues inside and out.
One [...]

I was chatting with the owner of a shop and his Azerbaijani friend last night when a young guy came in wearing a black shirt with gold lettering that said “L.A. Cocaine Business” on the front and “Tony Montana Scarfarce” on the back (want one? I’ve seen them for sale all over the net).  He [...]

During our discussion on Thursday, Hüseyin made no effort to hide his frustration with the German education system.  After all, how can you put kids through 10 years of school and not have them speaking decent German by the time they finish?  Germans, he says, are quick to blame it on Turks themselves, arguing that [...]

Today I had a great chat with Banu Karaca, a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at CUNY who’s doing research on the intersection of modernity, nationalism and art in both Istanbul and Berlin.  Her parents are from Turkey and she was born and raised in Frankfurt.  We talked about all kinds of issues related to [...]

This past Monday, several hours before sitting down at the Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz to watch the U.S. get crushed by the Czech Republic, I met with Jennifer Miller, a fellow grad student studying Turkish immigrants in Berlin.  A couple years ago we took a course at Princeton together on religious fundamentalism in Turkey [...]

Recent findings on the educational attainment of Turkish migrants in Germany are much worse than I expected.  Söhn and Özcan (2006) point out the following:

In 2003, 14% of Turkish students left school without any degree while only 6% of German students did.
In the same year, 31% of German students finished school with a higher secondary [...]

Yesterday I attended the Turkish Day Festival in front of the Brandenburg Gate. It was a great chance to see many sides of the Turkish community all at once while taking in some decent Turkish food. It was also interesting to compare this festival to the Turkish Day festival I attended a week [...]