Transnational migration, diaspora, and identity : a study of Kurdish diaspora in London / Ayar Ata.
Ata, Ayar, author.
2022
DS59.K86
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Title Transnational migration, diaspora, and identity : a study of Kurdish diaspora in London / Ayar Ata.
Author Ata, Ayar, author.
ISBN 9783031181696 (electronic bk.)
3031181697 (electronic bk.)
9783031181689
3031181689
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18169-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (colour).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-18169-6 doi
Call Number DS59.K86
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.891597
Summary This book explores a common but almost forgotten historical argument that positions the Kurds as powerless victims of the First World War (WW1). To this end, the book looks critically at the unfavourable political situations of the Kurds in the post-WW1 era, which began with the emergence of three new modern nation-states in the Middle EastTurkey, Iraq, and Syriaas well as related modernising events in Iran. It demonstrates the dire consequences of oppressive international and regional state policies against the Kurds, which led to mass displacement and forced migration of the Kurds from the 1920s on. The first part of the book sets out the context required to explain the historic and systematic sociopolitical marginalisation of the Kurds in the Middle Eastern region until the present day. In the second part, the book attempts to explain the formation of Kurdish diaspora communities in different European cities, and to describe their new and positive shifting position from victims in the Middle East to active citizens in Europe. This book examines Kurdish diaspora integration and identity in some major cities in Sweden, Finland and Germany, with a specific focus and an in-depth discussion on the negotiation of multiculturalism in London. This book uncovers the gaps in the existing literature, and critically highlights the dominance of policy- and politics-driven research in this field, thereby justifying the need for a more radical social constructivist approach by recognising flexible, multifaceted, and complex human cultural behaviours in different situations through the consideration of the lived experiences and by presenting more direct voices of members of the Kurdish diaspora in London, and by articulating the new and radical concept of Kurdish Londoner. .
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Series Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
Available in Other Form Transnational migration, diaspora, and identity.
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The Geopolitics of the Middle East-Post WW1
Chapter Three: Theoretical Framework: migration
Chapter Four: The Kurdish Diaspora
Chapter Five Overview.

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