»Sicher in Kreuzberg«
Constructing Diasporas: Turkish Hip-Hop Youth in Berlin

Author(s)
Kaya, Ayhan
Language
EnglishAbstract
This book examines the construction and articulation of diasporic cultural identity among the Turkish working-class youth in Kreuzberg (Little Istanbul), Berlin. This work primarily suggests that the contemporary diasporic consciousness is built on two antithetical axes: particularism and universalism. The presence of this dichotomy derives from the unresolved historical dialogues that the diasporic youths experience between continuity and disruption, essence and positionality, tradition and translation, homogeneity and difference, past and future, 'here' and 'there', 'roots' and 'routes', and local and global.
Keywords
Migration; Diaspora; Youth Culture; Media; HipHop; Youth; Berlin; SociologyISBN
9783933127716Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
http://www.transcript-verlag.dePublication date and place
Bielefeld, 2001Series
Kultur und soziale Praxis,Classification
Migration, immigration & emigration
Age groups: adolescents