Diasporic Marginalities and the Second-Best Destination : Exploring Migration from Turkey to Italy / by Gül Ince-Beqo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ince-Beqo, Gül., Author.

Series:

Social Sciences Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Europe--Politics and government.

Europe.

Ethnology.

Sociology of Migration.

Human Migration.

Migration Policy.

Diaspora Studies.

European Politics.

Ethnography.

Local Subjects:

Sociology of Migration.

Human Migration.

Migration Policy.

Diaspora Studies.

European Politics.

Ethnography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 134 p. 6 illus.).

Edition:

1st ed. 2026.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

Summary:

‘Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this book opens up new insights into the uneven geographies of access, economic opportunities, gendered work regimes and social and digital spaces.’ —Russell King, Professor of Geography, Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), UK ‘A valuable contribution not only to comprehending a particular migratory flow, but also to understanding several new aspects of contemporary migrations: second-best destinations, diasporic marginalities, and learning to stay.’ —Maurizio Ambrosini, Professor of Sociology of Migration, University of Milan, Italy ‘Entering the field as a translator and cultural mediator, Gül Ince-Beqo combines exceptional access with sustained ethical reflexivity.’ —Ayhan Kaya, Professor of Politics, Istanbul Bilgi University, Türkiye This open access book examines Turkish and Kurdish settlement in Italy, an under-studied "second-best destination" within Europe's stratified mobility regime. Drawing on decade-long ethnographic fieldwork and more than 100 interviews with families and second-generation young adults, the book traces trajectories of arrival, through asylum, irregular transit, family reunification, and work networks, and the gradual consolidation of lives in which onward-migration remains a live horizon. Through the concepts of "learning to stay" and "diasporic marginalities," the analysis moves between intimate family routines and wider transnational social fields. Destinations, the book argues, are structurally produced positions, not chosen endpoints, a reframing that opens new ground for understanding how precarity, aspiration, and belonging are negotiated across mobile lives for scholars and students of sociology of migration, diaspora studies, and transnational studies, as well as practitioners working on integration policy, legal precarity, and everyday bordering. Gül Ince-Beqo is a researcher in the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Milan, Italy, and an adjunct professor at Eastern Piedmont University, Italy.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Rethinking European Migration Through Second-Best Destinations

Chapter 3: Turkish and Kurdish Pathways to Italy: Migration as Continued Process

Chapter 4: Living the Second-Best: Diasporic Practices at Margins

Chapter 5: Migration as Continuous Adaptation in Europe’s Margins.

Notes:

Print version record.

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ISBN:

9789819226306