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Citizenship

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Acts Of Belonging: Perceptions Of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women In Germany, Ilgin Yorukoglu Feb 2014

Acts Of Belonging: Perceptions Of Citizenship Among Queer Turkish Women In Germany, Ilgin Yorukoglu

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis examines how people who have multiple identifications develop a sense of belonging. It focuses on those with politicized, romanticized, and stigmatized identifications which are assumed to be in conflict with one another. My particular case is that of "queer" women of Turkish descent in Germany with Berlin as my main study site.

These people embody what is considered to be an oxymoron: being queer yet also Turkish, being a lesbian yet having a Muslim background, being of immigrant origin yet also German. In short, they are between all worlds and thus, seemingly, do not belong anywhere. Their ambiguous …


Whose Millennium?: Religion, Sexuality And The Values Of Citizenship, Janet Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini Jan 2000

Whose Millennium?: Religion, Sexuality And The Values Of Citizenship, Janet Jakobsen, Ann Pellegrini

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

On April 13th and 14th, CLAGS hosts a major national conference on the theme Whose Millennium?: Religion, Sexuality, and the Values of Citizenship. The conference is being generously supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, in conjunction with CLAGS's Rockefeller Residency in the Humanities program.