Michelle Lynn Kahn. Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish–German History

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dc.contributor.authorWyck, Brian Van
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-03T18:14:23Z
dc.date.issued2025-12-01
dc.description.abstractWith this engaging first monograph, Michelle Lynn Kahn delivers transnational history at its most insightful. Foreign in Two Homelands centers on return migration, broadly defined to include cross-border flows of remittances, goods, discourses, images, and people. At its core, the book offers a long-overdue historicization of the migration wave triggered by the 1983 West German “Law for the Promotion of the Voluntary Return of Foreigners,” which encouraged so-called “guest workers” and their families to return to Turkey. In response, 250,000 Turkish citizens returned to their former homeland—“kicked out,” as Kahn puts it (9).
dc.description.urihttps://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/130/4/1753/8404804
dc.format.extent2 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
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dc.genrebook reviews
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2hbte-cgs8
dc.identifier.citationVan Wyck, Brian. “Michelle Lynn Kahn. Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish–German History.” The American Historical Review 130, no. 4 (2025): 1753–54. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf443.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf443
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/41601
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford Univeristy Press
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC History Department
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.titleMichelle Lynn Kahn. Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish–German History
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