Transnational Politics

Modern communications make it easier for all types of migrants to stay in touch with their country of origin meaning that migrants' transnational engagement is an increasingly important and relevant topic. "Transnational Politics" shows how the politics of one country, Turkey, plays itself out in another, Germany, through the presence and engagement of migrants and refugees. This book offers a case study of transnational political engagement of Turkish and Kurdish migrants and refugees in Germany and the political impact of these at national and international level. Turkish and Kurdish organizations in Germany not only mobilize in relation to immigrant political issues of equal rights, discrimination and citizenship in Germany but also in relation to the domestic and foreign political situation in Turkey. In this way they become a linkage group between Turkey and Germany. The case of migrants and refugees from Turkey to Germany is in many ways paradigmatic for how migrants' transnational practices occur and are perceived in a European context. This book should be of value to readers with an interest in the politics of international migration and migrant transnational and in the way

'Ostergaard-Nielsen has made a great research effort into producing this book, collecting an admirable variety of information about Kurdish, Turkish and Islamic organisations in Germany and detailing their aims and agenda.' - Derya Bayir, European Masters in Human Rights Programme, Venice.'Convincingly challenges the 'zero-sum' assumption about migrants' political activities in their host and home societies and demonstrates successfully the intermingling of the German and the Homeland agenda of the differenrt organizations.' - Gregoire Delhaye, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 'Convincingly challenges the 'zero-sum' assumption about migrants' political activities in their host and home societies and demonstrates successfully the intermingling of the German and the Homeland agenda of the differenrt organizations.' - Gregoire Delhaye, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism'Ostergaard-Nielsen has made a great research effort into producing this book, collecting an admirable variety of information about Kurdish, Turkish and Islamic organisations in Germany and detailing their aims and agenda.' - Derya Bayir, European Masters in Human Rights Programme, Venice.

Eva Østergaard-Nielsen is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Politics. She has published on the subject of diasporas and the political participation of migrants