Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship

In Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship (2009 on Ashgate), CCIG Fellow Dr Umut Erel develops new insights into the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. Her book interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with the lived experiences of an immigrant group that has so far received insufficient attention. By focusing on the British and German contexts, it introduces a much needed European and comparative perspective, whilst exploring the ways in which diverging concepts and policies of citizenship allow for a differentiated examination of ethnicity, gender, multiculturalism and citizenship in Europe.