"I’m here too, Girlfriend…":reclaiming public spaces for the gendering of civil society in Turkey

Having encountered many deep pot-holes along its long road to democracy since the 1960s, Turkey’s renewed efforts to secure EU membership as of the late 1980s allowed it to take advantage of externally funded initiatives focusing on gender equality, minority rights and civil society formation during the 1990s. By this means Europeanization as well as generation change and new communication technologies caused the formation of a new form of civil society, in which women are more present than ever and for the first time have the potential to alter the political system radically

'Diverse mobilities': second-generation Greek-Germans engage with the homeland as children and as adults

This paper is about the children of Greek labour migrants in Germany. We focus on two life-stages of ‘return’ for this second generation: as young children brought to Greece on holidays or sent back for longer periods, and as young adults exercising an independent ‘return’ migration. We draw both on literature and on our own field interviews with 50 first- and second-generation Greek-Germans. We find the practise of sending young children back to Greece to have been surprisingly widespread yet little documented. Adult relocation to the parental homeland takes place for five reasons: (i) a ‘search for self’; (ii) attraction of the Greek way of life; (iii) the actualisation of the ‘family narrative of return’ by the second, rather than the first, generation; (iv) life-stage events such as going to university or marrying a Greek; (v) escape from a traumatic event or oppressive family situation. Yet the return often brings difficulties, disillusionment, identity reappraisal, and a re-evaluation of the German context

Gendering the Institutions and Actors of the EU

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