Dissertation
Reshaping the Turkish nation-state: The Turkish-German guest working program and planned development, 1961-1985
University of Iowa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
Summer 2015
DOI: 10.17077/etd.005620
Abstract
This dissertation argues that the pursuit of modernization through “Western-style” development underlay Turkish planners’ decision to pursue their involvement in the 1960s-1980s Turkish-German guest worker program. This dissertation offers a new perspective on the history of this program and offers insight into the constitutive role Turkish participation in the labor exchange played in identity politics in latter twentieth-century Turkey. This dissertation focuses on the sending nation-state of Turkey to illuminate ideological motivations and some of the socio-cultural outcomes from Turkey’s participation in this guest worker program. By privileging Turkish language source materials -- including government documents, reporting in the popular press, and the voices of migrants themselves -- this dissertation reveals the Turkish context for their participation.
Academic inquiries into planned (or unplanned) migrations most often focus on the socio-economic and cultural influences on societies receiving the new population. Investigating the significance of international and transnational migrations from the contexts of both sending and receiving nations offers a penetrating lens into the attendant changes within and between each society. Scholarly investigations that scrutinize the significance of migration into Europe will be necessarily complicated by studies such as this one. The actors in both types of studies, the migrants themselves, are the same. The influences that these historical actors have had on their host and origin countries are necessarily interconnected and should be studied as such. This dissertation is my effort to expand this conversation with a sustained inquiry into Turkish motivations to participate in the 1960s-1980s Turkish-German guest worker program.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reshaping the Turkish nation-state: The Turkish-German guest working program and planned development, 1961-1985
- Creators
- Brian Joseph-Keysor Miller
- Contributors
- Paul Greenough (Advisor)H Glenn Penny (Advisor)Jennifer Sessions (Committee Member)Yasemin Mohammad (Committee Member)Deniz Sert (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- History
- Date degree season
- Summer 2015
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.005620
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- 259 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2015 Brian Joseph-Keysor Miller
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9983988298302771
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