« HISTORY AND MEMORY OF TURKISH MIGRATION TO WESTERN EUROPE », PANEL ESSHC, February 28-March 1, 2008. Organizers: Leen Beyers and Floris Vermeulen . Deadline : March 1 2007.

Turkish migration to Western Europe is widely studied today, but historical research and debate on the issue is still limited. At the next European Social Science History Conference (Lisbon, February 28-March 1, 2008), we aim to add to the historical perspective with the panel 'history and memory of Turkish migration to Western Europe'.

If you are interested in participation in the panel, you are cordially invited to send a paper proposal of 1/2 page to Leen Beyers, leen.beyers@arts.kuleuven.be, or Floris Vermeulen, f.f.vermeulen@uva.nl  ,by March 1 2007.  Pre-registration for the ESSHC can happen afterwards, at the ESSHC website: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc.

This panel aims to bring together new research on Turkish migration to Western Europe that is historically sensitive in one of the following three ways: first, by putting generational changes at the heart of the analysis, or, second, by dealing with historically specific conditions of migration and settlement - for instance the waning of the guest worker policies since the 1970s, the transnational tensions surrounding Islam since the 1980s or geographical differences in Turkey as well as in Western Europe -, or, third, by discussing memory processes with regard to Turkish migration to Western Europe. Of course, 'Turkey' and 'Western Europe' are working categories to be discussed and differences between different 'Turkish' people in terms of class, gender, religion or ethnicity should be central to the debate.