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Alman Gündelik Hayatında Kültür ve Mekan Müzakereleri: Tübingendeki Türk Öğrenciler Örneği

Year 2022, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 655 - 668, 30.11.2022
https://doi.org/10.33709/ictimaiyat.1163088

Abstract

Bu çalışma esas olarak Türk kökenli gençlerin bir Alman kenti olan Tübingen’deki mekân üretim süreçlerini incelemektedir. Bu makalenin temel farkı, Almanya bağlamında göçmen gençlerin kimlik üretim süreçleri tartışmasına bir kavram olarak mekânı ekleyerek mekân ve kimlik arasındaki diyalektik ilişkiye odaklanmaktır. Alman okullarında sosyalleşme sürecinin başlangıcında bu gençler ev sahibi ülke içinde kimliklerini müzakere ederek yeni mekânlar üreten ve var olan yerleri dönüştüren aktif faillerdir. Bu çalışmada 20 lise öğrencisi ile derinlemesine görüşme yapılmıştır. Öğrencilerin sadece kendi kimliklerini üretmekle kalmadıkları, aynı zamanda yeni varoluşsal mekânlar yarattıkları ve var olan mekânları yeniden yorumladıkları tespit edilmiştir. Okul içinde ve dışında kafeler, restoranlar, futbol sahaları, camiler/dernekler, Türkçe dersleri, yemekhaneler ve kutlama salonları “mekânsal müzakere” dediğim kavram çerçevesinde incelenecektir. Öğrenciler Türk kimlikleri ile Alman kimlikleri arasındaki mevcut gerilimi çözmeye çalışırlar ve bu gerilimi yeni kültürel biçimler üreterek çözebilirler. Başka bir deyişle, bu mekânlar kendi kimliklerini korumalarına katkıda bulunurken aynı zamanda diğer formlarla iç içe yeni kültürel değerler yaratırlar.

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Cultural and Spatial Negotiation in German Everyday Life: The Case of Turkish Students in Tubingen

Year 2022, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 655 - 668, 30.11.2022
https://doi.org/10.33709/ictimaiyat.1163088

Abstract

This study mainly examines the place production processes of Turkish-origin youths in a German city. The main difference of this article is focusing on the dialectical relationship between space and identity by adding the space as a concept to the discussion of identity production processes of youth migrants in German context. As in the beginning of the socialization process, these youths in German schools are active agents, producing new places and transforming the existing places through negotiating their identities within the host country. In this study, an in-depth interview is conducted with 20 high school students in Tübingen. It is found that students not only produce their own identities but also create new existential spaces and reinterpret existing spaces. Cafes, restaurants, football fields, mosques/associations, Turkish lessons, mess halls, and celebration halls will be discussed with the concept of what I called “spatial negotiation”, inside and outside of the school. In there, students try to solve the existing tension between Turkish identities and German identities, and they are able to resolve this tension by producing new cultural forms. In other words, these places contribute to maintaining their own identities while at the same time creating new cultural values intertwined with other forms.

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  • Anderson, K. (1991) Vancouver’s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875 /1980. Montreal: McGill /Queen’s University Press. Aydın, Y. (2016). The Germany-Turkey Migration Corridor; Refitting Policies For a Transnational Age. Washington DC: Migration Polict Institute.
  • Boyce, C. and Neale, P. (2006). Conducting In-Depth Interview: A Guide for Designing and Conducting In-Depth Interviews for Evaluation Input. Pathfinder International Tool Series, Monitoring and Evaluation-2. Retrieved from http://www.pathfind.org/site/DocServer/m_e_tool_series_indepth_intervie ws.pdf?docID=6301
  • Dwyer, C. (1998). Challenging Dominant Representations of Young British Muslim Women in Skelton T. and Valentine G. (eds.). Cool Places : Geographies of Youth Culture. London and Newyork: Routledge, pp. 50-65
  • De Certeau, M. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life (Volume 1). Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Ehrkamp, P. (2002). Turkish İmmigrants’ Politics Of Belonging: İdentity, Assimilation Discourse, And The Transformation Of Urban Space İn Duisburg-Marxloh. Germany. PhD Dissertation, Faculty Of The Graduate School Of The University Of Minnesota.
  • Ehrkamp, P. (2005). Placing identities: Transnational practices and local attachments of Turkish immigrants in Germany. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 31(2), 345-364
  • Gans (2002). The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View. City & Community , 1(4), 329-339.
  • Hall, S. (1989). “Ethnicity: Identity and Difference.” Radical America, 23:9–20
  • Jonker, G. (2000). What is other about other religions? The Islamic communities in Berlin between integration and segregation, Cultural Dynamics, 12(3), 311-329.
  • Karçiç, S. and Arslan, M. (2014). The Effect Of Turkısh Soap Operas On The Bosnıan Natıve Speakers In Turkısh Language Learnıng Process. Journal of Research in Education and Teaching, 4 (2), 179-187.
  • Kaya, A. (2007). “German-Turkish Transnational Space: A Separate Space of Their Own”. German Studies Review, 30(3), 483-502.
  • Ors, I. R (2018). Diaspora of the City. Stories of Cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens. New York: Palgrave, Macmillan
  • Tuncer (2018, December). Yemek, Kent ve Gündelik Hayat.Kolektif Mutfaklar Ne İşe Yarar? Retrieved From https://manifold.press/kolektif-mutfaklar-ne-ise-yarar.
  • Yılmaz, C. (2012). Yurtdışında Yaşayan Türk Çocuklarına Türkçe Öğretimi: Almanya Örneği. Ankara: Yurtdışı Türkler ve Akraba Topluluklar Başkanlığı.
  • Yükleyen, A. and Yurdakul, G. (2011). “Islamic activism and immigrant integration: Turkish organizations in Germany”. Immigrants & Minorities, 29(1), 64-85.
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Primary Language English
Subjects Sociology
Journal Section Orjinal Makale
Authors

Şeyma Karameşe 0000-0003-4125-1175

Early Pub Date November 27, 2022
Publication Date November 30, 2022
Submission Date August 16, 2022
Published in Issue Year 2022 Volume: 6 Issue: 2

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APA Karameşe, Ş. (2022). Cultural and Spatial Negotiation in German Everyday Life: The Case of Turkish Students in Tubingen. İçtimaiyat, 6(2), 655-668. https://doi.org/10.33709/ictimaiyat.1163088

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