Struggling for Recognition : : The Alevi Movement in Germany and in Transnational Space /

Struggling for Recognition : : The Alevi Movement in Germany and in Transnational Space / / Martin Sökefeld.

As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany’s Turkish imm...

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Sökefeld, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Pronunciation of Special Turkish Letters
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 IDENTITY AND RECOGNITION
  • 2 Going Public
  • 3 ORGANIZING ALEVIS
  • 4 CROSSCURRENTS OF IDENTIFICATION
  • 5 THE POLITICS OF MEMORY: SIVAS
  • 6 RITUAL AND COMMUNITY The Changing Meaning of Cem and Dedes
  • 7 RECOGNITION AND THE POLITICS OF MIGRATION IN GERMANY
  • 8 TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIONS AND THE CLAIMS OF THE NATION
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIX 1
  • APPENDIX 2 Glossary of Alevi and Turkish Terms
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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