Politics of ethnicity, identity and religion : Turkish Muslims in Britain

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Politics of ethnicity, identity and religion : Turkish Muslims in Britain

Talīp Küçükcan

Ashgate, c1999

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A study of a micro-Muslim community in Britain. The book analyzes how Turkish identity is constructed in the diaspora through an ethnographic study of the role of family, culture, organizations, and religious groups in the reproduction and transmission of traditional values to the young generation. This book informs students, academics, politicians and policy makers in particular about the traditions, values, beliefs and cultural traits of an ethnic community with a multicultural context. This study shows that Turkish and Islamic identities are not fixed and Muslims and Europe do not have a monolithic nature. There is a large diversity of perspectives and approaches to Islam, which indicate that any "essentializing" of "others" as a fixed category undermines pluralims and multiculturalism. The book also argues that there is an emergent identity construction and a sense of belonging among young Muslims who would like to see themselves as a permanent part of European civic culture because their loyalty lies in where they live.

Table of Contents

  • Methodology: ethnographic narrative and survey
  • migration, ethnicity and ethnic identity - theories revisited
  • Turkish labour migration to Western Europe and Britain
  • family, kinship and reproduction of traditional values
  • young generation and regeneration of identity
  • religious beliefs, attitudes and practices among the youth
  • Turkish organizations as social vehicles
  • transnational Islam and articulation of identity
  • trans-state Islam - religio-political organizations.

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