Events

Scholars and practitioners who center Antiracism in their work and RESIST all forms of bias and discrimination in languages will offer practical ways to embrace antiracism given the current political climate.

This lecture explores the transnational history of Turkish migrants in Germany. By the 1980s, amid rising racism, neo-Nazis and ordinary Germans blamed Turks for unemployment, criticized their Muslim faith, and argued they could never integrate. In 1983, policymakers enacted a controversial law: paying Turks to leave. Thus commenced one of modern Europe's largest and fastest waves of remigration: within one year, 15% of the migrants—250,000 men, women, and children—returned to Turkey. Their homeland, however, ostracized them as culturally estranged 'Germanized Turks’ (Almancı). Michelle Lynn Kahn highlights migrants’ personal stories, revealing how many felt foreign in two homelands.