In Pursuit of Belonging : : Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces / / Susan Beth Rottmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Rottmann, Susan Beth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology of Europe ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. At Home in European-Turkish Space --; Chapter 1. Making a Living in Illegal German-Turkish Call Centers --; Chapter 2. The Circumcision Celebration: Motherhood and Ethical Transformations --; Chapter 3. A “Man from a Village” and a “European Girl”: Love and a Life Together --; Chapter 4. Shaping a Community: A Dream Comes True --; Chapter 5. Being and Becoming Muslim --; Conclusion. In Pursuit of Belonging --; Appendix 1. Leyla’s Memoir Study Guide --; Appendix 2. Leyla’s Memoir --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789202700; 9783110997729
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789202700?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Susan Beth Rottmann.

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.