Issa Alevis in Europe

Voices of Migration, Culture and Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-18265-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

The Alevis are a significant minority in Turkey, and now also in the countries of Western Europe. Over the past century, many of them have migrated from rural enclaves on the Anatolian plateau to the great cities of Istanbul and Ankara, and from there to the countries of the European Union. This book asks who are they? How do they construct their identities – now and in the past; in Turkey and in Europe?

A range of scholars, writing from sociological, historical, socio-psychological and political perspectives, present analysis and research that shows the Alevi communities grouping and regrouping, defining and redefining – sometimes as an ethnic minority, sometimes as religious groups, sometimes around a political philosophy - contingently responding to circumstances of the Turkish Republic’s political position and to the immigration policies of Western Europe. Contributors consider Alevi roots and cultural practices in their villages of origin; the changes in identity following the migration to the gecekondu shanty towns surrounding the cities of Turkey; the changes consequent on their second diaspora to Germany, the UK, Sweden and other European countries; and the implications of European citizenship for their identity.

This collection offers a new and significant contribution to the study of migration and minorities in the wider European context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Issa, Tözün

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (Martin Sökefeld)

Preface (Israfil Erbil)

Introduction (Tözun Issa)

Part 1: Alevism: Roots and Practices

1. An Introduction to Alevism: Roots and Practices (Hayal Hanoglu)

2. 'Heterodoxy' within 'Heterodoxy': Ansa Baci of the Sraç Alevis, a Charismatic Female Leader (Ilkay Sahin, Ali Selçuk, Hava Selçu)

3. The Alevi of Dersim: A Psychosocial Approach to the Effects of the Massacre, Time and Space (Filiz Çelik)

Part 2: The Politics of Identity in Transformation

4. Alevism in Turkey: Tensions and Patterns of Migration (Hüseyin Mirza Karagöz)

5. Urbanisation, Socialist Movements and the Emergence of Alevi Identity in the 1970s (Burcu Sentürk)

6. A Genealogy of Modern Alevism, 1950-2000: Elements of Continuity and Discontinuity (Riza Yildirim)

7. The Alevi-State Relations in Turkey: Recognition and Re-Marginalisation (Ozlem Göner)

Part 3: Dimensions of Migration: Alevis in Europe

8. Migration and the Invention of Tradition: A Socio- Political Perspective on Euro-Alevis (Metin Uçar)

9. The Resurgence of Alevism in a Transnational Context (Deniz Cosan-Eke)

10. Kirmanciya Belekê: Understanding Alevi Geography in between Spaces of Longing and Belonging (Besim Can Zirh)

11. Boundary Making and the Alevi Community in Britain (Aysegül Akdemir)

12. Alevi Communities in Europe: Constructions of identity and integration (Tözün Issa and Emil Atbas)

Part 4: Implications for Educational Policy and Practice

13. Minorities and Migrant Identities in Contemporary Europe (Alistair Ross)

Über Autor(innen)

Tözün Issa was a senior lecturer and the Director of Centre for Multilingualism in Education at London Metropolitan University. He worked as a course tutor in teacher training programme for bilingual teachers and lectured on inclusive education and minority rights. His research interests included bilingual education and the education of the linguistic minority communities and he coordinated a number of research projects and organised conferences. He also coordinated several community education programmes, particularly around Supplementary Schools in the UK, and wrote extensively on this. His most recent book, co-authored with Alison Hatt, was Language, Culture and Identity in the Early Years (2013).