期刊名称：International Journal of Multicultural Societies
印刷版ISSN：1817-4574
出版年度：2009
卷号：11
期号：2
页码：212-229
出版社：UNESCO
摘要：Most studies on young people of Turkish descent in Western Europe,
i.e. the post-“Gastarbeiter” generation, present them as a
homogeneous group without major changes over time. Research
results from the 1990s are treated as current evidence, and little effort
is put into longitudinal study designs. The only major internal
distinction introduced recently has been the focus on the second
generation. Yet definitions of second generation almost exclusively
work with demographic criteria (either place of birth or age of
entrance to the country), while even basic elements of generational
sociology are not considered. This article approaches the Turkish
second generation in Germany from the perspective of generational
sociology in the Mannheimian sense, i.e. to look for generational
identity and the main ingredients of young German Turks’ selfdefinitions.
This concept of generation introduces an important
additional dimension, absent in most sociological research on
migrants and their children: the dimension of time or history. Based
on examples from the cultural production of the Turkish second
generation, it is argued that even within the relatively short duration
of Turkish immigration to Germany life experiences of young people
of Turkish descent have fundamentally changed – and continue to do
so. So what integration actually means depends not least on age and
generational experience.
