Download or read book The Meskhetian Turks at a Crossroads written by Tom Trier and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Meskhetian Turks written by Forced Migration Projects and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meskhetian Turks written by Hatice Nurhayat Bilge and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Meskhetian Ahiska Turks in the Us and Their Academic Achievement written by Mehmet Akif Cingi and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Meskhetian Turks written by Arif Yunusov and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding and Defining Ethic Identity written by Mustafa Aydar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Meskhetian Turks written by Ayşegül Aydıngün and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between Integration and Resettlement The Meskhetian Turks written by Oskari Pentikäinen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between Integration and Resttlement written by Oskari Pentikainen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conflict Areas in the Caucasus and Central Asia written by Arda Özkan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caucasus region and Central Asia covers a large part of the Eurasian. Both regions, where Russia and China have a serious influence and visibility, also have a location that reflects the hegemonic expectations of both these actors. In this context, domestic political developments and even internal conflicts in the region can be linked to the policies of Russia and China to a certain extent and have the potential to affect the motives of these two powers. Although Central Asia is rich in natural resources, it is landlocked and has lagged other nations in terms of agricultural production and industrial development. Although the Caucasus is divided into the North, the territory of Russia, and the South, where three independent states are located, it is insufficient in terms of production and development. The Caucasus stands out especially with energy projects and its feature of being a commercial corridor.
Download or read book Ethno nationalism of the Ahiska Meskhetian Turks written by Eric John Tuls and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documents written by Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2006-01-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Meskhetian Turks in Ukraine Survey Report written by T. Klinchenko and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meskhetian Turks in Azerbaijan Problems and Perspective of Return to the Historical Mother Country written by Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Does Meskhetian Turk s Culture Affect Academic Achievement of High School Students what Does Help written by Mehmet Akif Cingi and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the study was to explain the history, culture, and characteristic of Meskhetian Turks and investigate the relationship between their culture and academic success. Ethnography, which is a qualitative design, was used for this research. The data was collected through field-work, informal observations, and interviews with a teacher and a parent.
Download or read book Fragile Migration Rights written by Matthew Light and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration. In the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, the constitution and laws of the new Russian Federation appeared to herald a complete break with the repressiveness of the previous government. Russian law now proclaims the right of Russian citizens and residents to move around their country freely. This book examines how and why this post-Soviet legal promise of internal freedom of movement has been undermined in practice by both federal and regional policies. It thereby adds a new dimension to scholarly understanding of the nature of rights, citizenship, and law enforcement in contemporary Russia. Most contemporary works focus on the attempts of developed Northern countries to regulate migration from the global South to the global North: here Matthew Light examines the restriction of migration within Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, providing a comprehensive view into an area rarely explored within migration scholarship. Fragile Migration Rights develops a comprehensive theoretical framework to analyse this complex subject. It is essential reading for students and academics from a range of disciplines including criminology, human rights, migration studies, and political science.
Download or read book Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence written by Richard Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism is now the dominant narrative in Russian politics, and one with genuine popularity in society. Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence is a theoretical and empirical study which seeks to break the concept of "ethnic violence" into distinguishable types, examining the key question of why violence within the same conflict takes different forms at certain times and providing empirical insight into the politics of one of the most important countries in the world today. Theoretically, the work promises to bring the content of ethnic identity back into explanations of ethnic violence, with concepts from social theory, and empirical and qualitative analysis of databases, newspaper reports, human rights reports, social media, and ethnographic interviews. It sets out a new typology of ethnic violence, studied against examples of neo-Nazi attacks, Cossack violence against Meskhetian Turks, and Russian race riots. Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence brings hate crimes in Russia into the study of ethnic violence and examines the social undercurrents that have led to Putin’s embrace of nationalism. It adds to the growing body of English language scholarship on Russia’s nationalist turn in the post-Cold War era, and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only why different forms of ethnic violence occur, but also the potential trajectory of Russian politics in the next 20 years.
