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- Title
The "Guest" Who Refuses to Work, the "Terrorist" Who Contemplates Global Hunger: Minorities in Fatih Akin Films.
- Authors
Çelik Rappas, İpek A.; Hagemann, Karen; Jarausch, Konrad H.; Hof, Tobias
- Abstract
In her book that explores Turkish migrant organizations in Germany, sociologist Gökçe Yurdakul detects a historical transformation in the political representation of migrants and minorities from the 1970s through the 2000s. She marks six historical events that lead to this transformation: labor migration (1961–1972), the introduction of family reunification law (1973–1979), post-1980 military coup asylum seekers from Turkey (1980–1988), the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath of exacerbating xenophobia against non-German minorities (1989–1998), the introduction of the new citizenship law (1999), and finally the terrorist attacks on September 11 (2001–present). According to Yurdakul, these events mark a gradual shift in the minority rights debate. While the first minority organizations were formed around labor rights, gradually, due to these landmark events and laws, their demands shifted toward political and social rights of citizenship, and identitarian rights, such as the right "to exist as Muslims and as Europeans."
- Subjects
IMMIGRANTS in motion pictures; MINORITIES in motion pictures; YURDAKUL, Gokce; AKIN, Fatih, 1973-; LEGAL status of minorities; GERMAN films
- Publication
Central European History (Cambridge University Press / UK), 2020, Vol 53, Issue 2, p453
- ISSN
0008-9389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0008938920000199