The Meskhetian Turks at a Crossroads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Meskhetian Turks at a Crossroads write by Tom Trier. This book was released on 2007. The Meskhetian Turks at a Crossroads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the result of a comprehensive and pioneering research project, and offers innovative insights into the life of the Meskhetian Turks - an ethnic group collectively deported from Georgia by Stalin during World War II. The volume examines their integration in the countries where they now live, their understanding of home and belonging and their desire to return to Georgia. Apart from thoroughly documenting the current life of Meskhetian Turks, the research also identifies new approaches in finding solutions to the issue of Meskhetian Turk displacement.
Meskhetian Turks
Meskhetian Turks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meskhetian Turks write by Forced Migration Projects. This book was released on 1998. Meskhetian Turks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Meskhetian Turks
Meskhetian Turks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meskhetian Turks write by Hatice Nurhayat Bilge. This book was released on 2012. Meskhetian Turks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This project explores the cultural identity of a refugee group named Meskhetian Turks, an ethnic group forced to relocate multiple times in their long history. Driven from their original homeland and scattered around Central Asia and Eastern Europe for decades, approximately 15,000 Meskhetian Turks have been granted refugee status by the American government in recent years. The focus of this study is a group of Meskhetian Turkish refugees in the Phoenix metropolitan area. This is a narrative study conducted through twelve open-ended in-depth interviews and researcher's observations within the community. The interview questions revolved around three aspects of Meskhetian cultural identity, which were represented in each research question. These aspects were: how Meskhetian Turks define their own culture; how they define their connection to Turkey and Turks; and how they define Americans, American culture and their place within the American society. The first research question resulted in three themes: history, preservation of culture, and sense of community. The second research question revealed two themes: Meskhetian Turk's ties to Turkey, and the group's relationship with and perception of Turks in the area. The final research question provided two themes: the group's adaptation to United States, and interviewees' observations regarding the American culture. Exploring these themes, and examining the connection between these aspects provided a complex and intertwined web of connections, which explain Meskhetian Turkish cultural identity. Meskhetian Turks' cultural self-definition, relation with the Turkish community, and perceptions of American culture are all inter-connected, which supports and furthers a dialectic approach to cultural studies. The study also contributes to refugee adaptation literature by examining cultural identity influences on the group's adaptation in the United States and offering insight and suggestions for improving the adaptation process.
Meskhetian/Ahiska Turks in the Us and Their Academic Achievement
Meskhetian/Ahiska Turks in the Us and Their Academic Achievement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meskhetian/Ahiska Turks in the Us and Their Academic Achievement write by Mehmet Akif Cingi. This book was released on 2013-01. Meskhetian/Ahiska Turks in the Us and Their Academic Achievement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Think about a nation that was deported several times including from their homeland. Meskhetian/Ah ska Turks were not told where they would be sent from Georgia which is their homeland, they could not find a chance to pack. They were loaded into a freight car and the journey took 18 days. Many of them died because of typhoid. They were faced dicrimination in Uzbekistan and a pogrom broke out. The result was another disappointment for Ah ska Turks; approximately 17.000 people deported to the Russia by the Soviet Army. Life did not change for Ah ska Turks in Krasnodar/Russia, discrimination, lack of nationality, and violonce had opened them another door: USA. Around 9000 Ah ska Turks were resettled in over 30 states. After 60 years, they finaly find a place which could be called as home. Think about a nation that deported several times and try to think about their success in American schools. The purpose of this work was to learn how successful were Ah ska Turks in American schools and how their culture affects.
Understanding and Defining Ethic Identity
Understanding and Defining Ethic Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding and Defining Ethic Identity write by Mustafa Aydar. This book was released on 2015. Understanding and Defining Ethic Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ahiska/Meskhetian Turks are an ethnic group from the region of Meskhetia (Ahiska) in the Caucasus, now in southern Georgia that borders Turkey. Ahiska/Meskhetian Turks have been forced to relocate multiple times in their history. First, they were exiled from their homeland of Ahiska to Uzbekistan by Stalin in 1944, then from Uzbekistan to the Krasnodar region of Russia in 1989. The US government granted refugee status to many Ahiska Turks in Krasnodar in 2004, and by the end of 2006 around 17,000 settled in 66 towns in 33 states in the US (Ayd?ngun et al., 2006). This study focused on understanding ethnic identity and life of Ahiska/Meskhetian Turks in Columbia, Missouri. It presented both my fieldwork as well as other pertinent literature addressing ethnicity and ethnic identity, circumstantialism, primordialism, adaptation, and assimilation. For this research, data are mainly derived from qualitative ethnographic research methods that involved participant observation, semistructured individual, family and formal voice recorded interviews. The study demonstrated that the most important components of Ahiska ethnic identity are religion, language, family, and endogamy. However, religion comes first for Ahiska ethnic identity. Participants used Ahiska Turks, Muslim Turks, and Ottoman Turks for naming their identity. Ahiska Turks’ ethnic identity is not unchangeable and rigid, and it has been changing in different countries and under different economic and social conditions. Although ancestry, “bone of Ahiska Turkish bone, flesh of Ahiska Turkish flesh, and blood of Ahiska Turkish blood” is important for them, feeling Ahiskan, and obeying community culture is more important than having Ahiskan ancestry. It can be said that their comments about ethnic identity are closer to circumstantialism, however; they are not purely circumstantialist or primordialist. Their life is more comfortable than in any other places where they had lived before, and living in the USA has ensured security, equality, antiracism and freedom for them. The American core culture is fundamentally different than Ahiskan culture, and religion is one of the most significant ethnic boundary markers for them. Although interviewees do not have significant problems in the USA, older generations want to move to Turkey after retirement. Ahiska Turks accepted that they are changed, adapted and integrated and acculturated to American society, but they did not want assimilation or Americanization. It is acceptable for them to borrow some kind of things from the host culture or other ethnic groups. However, they cannot change the main components of their identity like religion and language, and their boundary markers like food, and eating habits etc.
