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Kahn, Michelle Lynn,

Foreign in two homelands : racism, return migration, and Turkish-German history / Michelle Lynn Kahn, University of Richmond. - 1 online resource - Publications of the German Historical Institute .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The woman with the German house -- Sex, lies, and abandoned families -- Vacations across Cold War Europe -- Remittance machines -- Racism in Hitler's shadow -- The mass exodus -- Unhappy in the homeland -- Epilogue: The final return?

"Between 1961 and 1973 Turkish migrants were recruited as guest-workers in Germany, becoming West Germany's largest ethnic minority. This transnational history explores their experiences, emphasizing German racism and the estrangement faced by those who remigrated in the following decades, and reveals how many came to feel foreign in two homelands"--

ISBN: 9781009486682

LCCN: 2023057630

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Turks--Social conditions.--Germany (West)
Foreign workers--Social conditions.--Germany (West)
Racism--Germany (West)
Turks--Migrations.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany (West)--Ethnic relations.
Germany (West)--Race relations.
Germany (West)--Emigration and immigration
Turkey--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.