Media, diaspora and conflict : nationalism and identity amongst Kurdish and Turkish migrants in Europe / Janroj Yilmaz Keles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keles, Janroj Yilmaz, author.

Series:

International library of migration studies ; 8.

International library of migration studies ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurds--Europe--Ethnic identity.

Kurds.

Turks--Europe--Ethnic identity.

Turks.

Nationalism.

Mass media and ethnic relations.

Mass media and nationalism.

Kurds--Ethnic identity.

Turks--Ethnic identity.

Ethnicity.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Summary:

For migrant communities residing outside of their home countries, various transnational media have played a key role in maintaining, reviving and transforming ethnic and religious identities. A vital element is how media outlets report and represent ethno-national conflict in the home country. Janroj Yilmaz Keles here examines how this plays out among Kurdish and Turkish communities in Europe. He offers an analysis of how Turkish and Kurdish migrants in Europe react to the myriad mediated narratives. Taking as his starting point an analysis of the nature of nationalisms in the modern age, Keles shows how language is often a central element in the struggle for hegemony within a state. The media has become a site for the clash of representations in both Turkish and Kurdish languages, especially for those based in the diaspora in Europe. These "virtual communities", connected by television and the internet, in turn influence and are influenced, by the way the conflict between the Turkish state and subaltern Kurds is played out, both in the media and on the ground. By looking at first, second and third generations of Turkish and Kurdish populations in Europe, Keles highlights the dynamics of migration, settlement and integration that often depend on the policies of each settlement country. Since these settlement states often see the proliferation of such media as an impediment to integration, Media, Diaspora and Conflict offers timely analysis concerning the nature of diasporas and the construction of identity. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 "Nationalism has Gone Mobile" 11

2 Constructing an Imagined Turkish National Identity: The origin of Turkey's "Kurdish Question" 37

3 Mediating the Turkish and Kurdish Ethno-National Conflict 70

4 Media Consumption, Identity Formation and Conflict of Terms 104

5 Political Transnationalism: Öcalan's Capture 140

6 Three-way Mediated Banal Nationalism in Transnational Spaces 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-248) and index.

ISBN:

1784530395

9781784530396

OCLC:

889164151