Turkish women in Alsace: Language maintenance and shift in negotiating integration
Turkish women in Alsace: Language maintenance and shift in negotiating integration

Author(s): Feray J. Baskin
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Sociolinguistics, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Migration Studies, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: France; Alsace; Turkish women; gender; language maintenance; integration; media; culture; migration policy;
Summary/Abstract: European political themes in the 21st century are overwhelmingly dominated by concerns about the nature of national identity, the role of Islam in democratic society, and the impact of immigrants and their descendants on the perceived cultural homogeneity among the majority of EU countries (Modood, 2013; Meer & Modood 2013; Joppke, 2007; Crul et al., 2012; Akgönül, 2009). The immigration policies of the European Union have been critical towards immigrant populations in the sense that policies have been inconsistent and heavily focused on assimilationist processes.

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