Cultural Identity, Minority Position and Immigration: Turkey's Jewish Minority vs. Turkish-Jewish Immigrants in Israel
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 511-525
ISSN: 1743-7881
This article explores identity constructions of two specific communities -- Turkey's Jewish minorities and Turkish-Jewish immigrants in Israel - and makes a comparative analysis of these two cases for immigrant and minority groups bounded by their level of integration and assimilation into the societies that they currently live in. Data come from empirical research conducted in Israel and Turkey. Apart from profiling these communities, the article aims at focusing in-depth on identity formation, and does this in four parts: 1) background information on the Jewish minority in Turkey, and Turkish-Jewish immigrants in Israel; 2) an empirical study on identity formulations of the concerned communities; 3) discussion of results of comparative research; 4) comparison of the two groups and highlighting the complexity of identity formation within the dimensions of minority and international migration issues. Adapted from the source document.