Türkiye Kökenli Göçmen Kadinlarin Hollanda’daki Örgütlenme Deneyimleri Ve Feminist Siyaset
Organizational Experiences of Turkish Immigrant Women in the Netherlands and Feminist Politics

Summary/Abstract: There is a tendency that women’s migration has still been acknowledged as “dependant” or “secondary” migratory movement in guest worker regimes’ traditional family Reunion schemas. Despite acknowledging the feminization of immigration, literature on immigrant women in guest worker regimes has mainly been focused on integration issues. However it is necessary to recognize Turkish immigrant women as the political/social actors of the country of residence within multiple attachments and to give immigrant and ethnic minority women greater visibility within receiving country context within transnational migration perspectives. This article examines evolution of Turkish imigrant women’s organisational experiences and their ties with Turkish and Dutch feminist movements since the 1970’s. In this context, colonial baggage of Dutch feminism and their relationships with “the other” women in contemporary Dutch multicultural context has been addressed. This study is based on in-depth interviews with activist Turkish women in both immigrant women organizations and Dutch feminist movement during since 1970s and archival data collected by International Archive of the Women's Movement (IIAV) and International Instute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. This article argues how women’s movement articulates gender regimes and political opportunity structures and how gender ethnicity and class intersects in local-national and transnational contexts.

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