Table Of ContentTURKISH BERLIN
GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNITY
Susan E. Clarke, Series Editor
Dennis R. Judd, Founding Editor
21 Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space
Annika Marlen Hinze
20 Struggling Giants: City-Region Governance in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo
Paul Kantor, Christian Lefèvre, Asato Saito, H.V. Savitch, and
Andy Thornley
19 Does Local Government Matter? How Urban Policies Shape Civic Engagement
Elaine B. Sharp
18 Justice and the American Metropolis
Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom, editors
17 Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age
Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, editors
16 Seeking Spatial Justice
Edward W. Soja
15 Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity
Xiangming Chen, editor
14 A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture
John M. Hagedorn
13 El Paso: Local Frontiers at a Global Crossroads
Victor M. Ortíz-González
12 Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community
William Sites
11 A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound
Warren Magnusson and Karena Shaw, editors
10 City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty
Ananya Roy
9 Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India’s High-Tech City
Smriti Srinivas
8 Fin de Millénaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life
Judit Bodnár
7 Latino Metropolis
Victor M. Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres
6 Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together
Manuel Pastor Jr., Peter Dreier, J. Eugene Grigsby III, and Marta
López-Garza
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TURKISH BERLIN
Integration Policy and
Urban Space
ANNIKA MARLEN HINZE
Globalization and Community, Volume 21
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Hinze, Annika.
Turkish Berlin : integration policy and urban space / Annika Marlen Hinze.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Assimilation (Sociology)—Germany—Berlin. 2. Turks—Cultural assimilation.
3. Turks—Germany—Berlin. 4. Group identity—Germany—Berlin 5. Emigration and
immigration—Turkey. 6. Emigration and immigration—Germany. I. Title.
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This book is dedicated to my mentors,
Sultan Tepe, Dennis Judd, and David Perry.
They are an inspiration for me to always be
the best scholar I can be.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
IntroductionBabel Berlin, German Immigrant
Capital xiii
1. Integration or Exclusion? Understanding Turkish
Immigration in Germany 1
2. Talk of the Town: Space, Visibility, and the
Contestation of German Identity 33
3. Mein Block:The Neighborhood as a Site of Identity 75
4. Location as Destiny: Integrating Kreuzberg and
Neukölln 111
ConclusionLearning from Immigrant Neighborhoods 145
Appendixes
A. Zeynep’s and Bilge’s Kreuzkölln 163
B. Berlin Senate 167
C. The Buschkowsky Administration’s Ten-Point
Integration Agenda for the District of Neukölln 171
Notes 175
Bibliography 187
Index 197
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A book is never the work of a single person. From the first ideas to the final
product, many, many people are involved in its development. This book
grew out of what started as a dissertation project in 2006 at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, but has since evolved into so much more. Therefore,
I want to start by thanking my incredible teachers at UIC, who helped me
become the scholar that I am today. The spark that inspired everything was
David Perry’s Ph.D. seminar on Contested Cities at the College of Urban
Planning and Public Administration at UIC, one of the most stimulating
and interesting seminars I have taken in my life, and I will forever remem-
ber all his excellent intellectual advice. But I was also inspired by the social
context of Chicago. Had I not moved there on that sweltering day in early
August 2004, this book would have never been written. Dennis Judd, then
graduate director for the Department of Political Science at UIC, was the
first professor in Chicago I ever communicated with. His advice and intel-
lectual feedback during my first year of graduate studies laid the founda-
tion for a way of thinking. My dissertation chair, Sultan Tepe, an incredible
role model, has always pushed me to take my mind one step further, to
bend it around one more corner. Her amazing intellect and strength were
and continue to be both foundation and inspiration for my work. Her gen-
uine interest in her students’ intellectual growth makes her one of the best
teachers I have ever known!
Anthony Orum at the Department of Sociology at UIC and Garbi
Schmidt, now at Roskilde University, Denmark, were also irreplaceable
intellectual advisors on my dissertation, and their feedback was indispen-
sable in moving this project along.
During my field research in Berlin, I found a home at the Research Unit
for Migration, Integration, and Transnationalization at the Wissenschaft-
szentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung; I would like to thank Marc Helbling
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