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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE IN TURKISH
STUDIES (to appear in June<SPAN class=086531012-15072008>
</SPAN>2009)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>We would like to invite papers for a special
issue in Turkish Studies journal on Turkish Identity Formation and Political
Mobilization in Western Europe and North America. We are specifically interested
in original articles that focus on Turkish immigrant associations and their
participation in politics in F<SPAN class=086531012-15072008>rance</SPAN>,
B<SPAN class=086531012-15072008>elgium,</SPAN> and in the U<SPAN
class=086531012-15072008>nited</SPAN> K<SPAN
class=086531012-15072008>ingdom</SPAN>. Articles that contain primary data
will be preferred. If you would like to submit your article to this special
issue, please contact: Dr. Sebnem Koser Akcapar at </FONT><A
href="mailto:sa364@georgetown.edu"><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>sa364@georgetown.edu</FONT></A><FONT face=Garamond size=4> and Dr. Gokce
Yurdakul at </FONT><A href="mailto:g.yurdakul2007@gmail.com"><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>g.yurdakul2007@gmail.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Garamond size=4> (special
issue guest editors). Please note that all articles will be peer-reviewed. The
submission date is July 30, 2008. This special issue is currently in
preparation and has the following articles: Turkish organisations in Europe: how
national contexts provide different<SPAN class=086531012-15072008>
</SPAN>avenues for participation? Pontus Odmalm// Divided We Stand?:
Turks<SPAN class=086531012-15072008> </SPAN>and Turkish associations in the
United States, Sebnem Koser Akcapar // Immigrant associations in Canada:
Included, accommodated or excluded? Saime Ozcurumez// Islam, conflicts and
immigrant integration in Germany: The cases of Diyanet Isleri and Milli Gorus,
Gokce Yurdakul // Organizing for access? The political mobilization of Turks in
Amsterdam, Laure Michon and Floris Vermeulen // "The light of the Alevi fire was
lit in Germany and then spread to Turkey": The debate about the relationship
between Alevism and Islam, Esra Ozyurek // Towards a success story? Turkish
immigrant organisations in Norway, Jon Rogstad, // The Gulen Movement in
Ireland: Civil society engagements of a Turkish religio-cultural community,
Jonathan Lacey.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Best regards,<BR>Gokce Yurdakul<BR>Post-doctoral
Fellow<BR>Freie Universitaet Berlin Program for Advanced German and European
Studies<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>