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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.
Susan Beth Rottmann is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Faculty at OEzyegin University where she is researching forced migration in Europe and Turkey.
Introduction: At Home in European-Turkish SpaceChapter 1. Making a Living in Illegal German-Turkish Call CentersChapter 2. The Circumcision Celebration: Motherhood and Ethical TransformationsChapter 3. "A Man From a Village" and "A European Girl": Love and a Life TogetherChapter 4. Shaping a Community: A Dream Comes TrueChapter 5. Being and Becoming MuslimConclusion: In Pursuit of BelongingAppendix I: Leyla's Memoir Study GuideAppendix II: Leyla's MemoirBibliographyIndex
"...interestingly it makes a contribution to the literature by being an ethnography of one woman whose life story is situated in a transnational space... This is an impressive study". Kimberly Hart, SUNY Buffalo State