TRANSIT 9.1: Foreword Dear Readers, We are pleased to announce the publication of the first installment of texts in our 2013–14 volume: an excerpted translation of Sabahattin Ali’s Kürk Mantolu Madonna (The Madonna in the Fur Coat, 1943); selections from the exhibition … Continue reading
Erik Born
Book Review Download PDF Germana, Nicholas A. The Orient of Europe: The Mythical Image of India and Competing Images of German National Identity. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 272 pages. Paper, £39.99. Nicholas A. Germana’s monograph shines light … Continue reading
Transit By Deniz Göktürk Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF “Transit” is understandable the world over: the word means “passage” in many languages. One might think of crossing borders or of moving through a place; in transit we are all … Continue reading
Nation By Wolfgang Kaschuba Translated by Ashwin J. Manthripragada Download PDF Since the fifteenth century the Latin term natio has gradually seeped into European languages as a loanword. This illustrates the conceptualization of a populace bound by lineage, history, language … Continue reading
Multiculturalism (Multiculturality) By Claus Leggewie Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF “Multiculturality” and more specifically “multiculturalism” are words that have not yet managed to receive recognition as serious academic concepts. They have too often been employed as terms of combat … Continue reading
Mobility By Gisela Welz Translated By Courtney Johnson Download PDF Mobility is understood as overcoming geographic distances with movement. When national borders are crossed, one refers to transnational mobility. Some kinds of mobility are freely chosen, such as tourism or … Continue reading
Integration By Albrecht Koschorke Translated by Emina Musanovic Download PDF [Integration (from Lat. integrare, “to renew, complete, reconstruct”) designates, on a sociological level, the assimilation of an individual into a group or the incorporation of a minority into the majority. … Continue reading
Guest Faces By Emine Sevgi Özdamar Translated by Erik Born Download PDF As a child in Istanbul, the first European word that I heard was: “Deux-Pièces.” Every Monday, my parents went to a movie theatre called “Teyyare Sinemasi.” In German, … Continue reading
The Future of Migration By Jochen Oltmer Translated by Jennifer Ingalls Download PDF Migration has always been a central element of the human adaptation to changing environmental conditions, as well as to social, economic, and political changes. The movement of … Continue reading
Baggage By Deniz Utlu Translated by Cara Tovey Download PDF On a Christmas day in the early 1960s, my father, emaciated from an almost deadly case of tuberculosis, set his wooden suitcase—his baggage—down on a pier in Hamburg. He had … Continue reading