Eveline REISENAUERÂ is researcher at the Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD) and doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany. She graduated from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a degree in Sociology.
She will present her research on transnational personal relationship of Turkish migrants in Germany
On 7th March 2013 Р2pm-3:30pm at the s̩minaire 12 (Universit̩ de Li̬ge, b̢t. 31, 7 bvd du Rectorat, 4000 Li̬ge)
Abstract
Turkish migrants are separated from their family members, relatives and friends in the emigration country due to their own movement to Germany. Regardless weather this spatial separation is limited in time or permanently, migration processes go along with a combination of proximity and distance, presence and absence, and mobility and immobility of migrants and their significant others. This may lead to the formation of transnational personal relationships. Even if personal relationships over physical distance are not static entities but can change through an individual life course, they provide various material and emotional services for the involved persons. My contribution reconstructs transnational personal relationships in the everyday life of Turkish migrants and their children on the basis of qualitative interviews. It is asked how personal relationships over distance are established and maintained by Turkish migrants in Germany and which individual relevance they have for the migrants themselves. Overall, my research aims to develop a multifaceted understanding of transnational personal relationships maintained by Turkish migrants in Germany.
Eveline Reisenauer is among others a co-author (with Thomas Faist and Margit Fauser) of “Transnational Migration” (Polity Press, 2013).
