From Vagabond to Tourist: Second-Generation Turkish-German Deportees’ Narratives of Self-Healing and Well-being
By: Nilay Kılınç
Abstract
The paper explores the social integration, well-being and self-healing strategies and outcomes of a sample of second-generation Turkish-Germans who were deported to Turkey due to conviction for youth crimes. Based on the life-story narratives of 14 male participants living and working in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya, I analysed the way in which this tourist city offers spaces for self-discovery and socioeconomic integration, based on profitable work in the tourist economy. Although deportation was a traumatic event, it facilitated possibilities for life transformation – from ‘vagabond’ to ‘tourist’.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/njmr-2019-0016 | Journal eISSN: 1799-649X
Language: English
Page range: 239 - 255
Published on: Jun 1, 2019
Published by: Helsinki University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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