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Understanding divisions and fostering dialogue among Berlin’s Turkish speaking communities

Descripción del proyecto

Investigar las fracturas en la población turcoparlante de Berlín

Las comunidades turcoparlantes de Alemania son intrincadas y diversas, y abarcan varias etnias, religiones, clases socioeconómicas y afiliaciones políticas. A pesar de convivir, estas comunidades suelen tener una interacción limitada y albergan sentimientos negativos entre sí. Las investigaciones anteriores sobre las diásporas de habla turca en Europa, incluidos los kurdos, se han centrado en sus conexiones con Turquía o su integración en las comunidades de acogida, en lugar de examinar sus interacciones dentro del grupo. El equipo del proyecto ARAMIZDA, financiado con fondos europeos, explorará las divisiones existentes entre la población turcoparlante de Berlín, tratando de comprender cómo los grupos de la sociedad civil pueden mitigar o exacerbar estas divisiones. En el proyecto se emplearán metodologías de las ciencias sociales como el trabajo de campo etnográfico, los diarios y las entrevistas para recopilar datos exhaustivos e implicar activamente a los participantes de la investigación en la toma de decisiones relativas a la recogida de datos.

Objetivo

After 60 years of migration in countless waves, Germany’s Turkish-speaking communities are complex and diverse. Routinely lumped together by policymakers, media and the public as “Turks”, they in fact encompass a multitude of ethnicities, religions, classes and political groupings. Though they live side-by-side, they often have little contact and frequently harbour disparaging, even hostile feelings towards each other. ARAMIZDA (meaning “between/among us” in Turkish), draws on methods and theories from a range of disciplines to produce novel, high-quality research on divisions within Berlin’s Turkish-speaking communities. It explores the role civil society organisations play in easing and exacerbating those divides. Previous work on Europe’s large Turkish-speaking diasporas (including Kurds) has been mostly concerned with these groups’ links to Turkey or their integration with host populations. No detailed study has focused explicitly on how they interact with each other. At a time when European policymakers are grappling with the paradox of growing spaces for minority communities but shrinking opportunities for social dialogue, the project will use a mix of social science methods (including ethnographic fieldwork, diaries and interviews) to collect rich data to understand divisions within Turkish-speaking communities. It will foster collaboration with research participants by inviting them to play a role in determining data collection methods and taking an active role in a key non-academic offshoot of the project. This final aspect will take the form of workshop, run in partnership with an anti-polarisation charity, aimed at piloting ways of encouraging diverse groups to engage in dialogue. The findings — which will be widely dispersed through academic and non-academic channels — will be used to advance theories on diversity and inclusion, increase understanding among policymakers and the public, and test practical ways to build more united and resilient societies.

Coordinador

MAECENATA FOUNDATION
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 237 109,20
Dirección
OBERFOEHRINGER STRASSE 18
80798 MUNCHEN
Alemania

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Región
Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt
Tipo de actividad
Other
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