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Jan 2020
29m 49s

Ayhan Kaya on migration from Turkey to E...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Ayhan Kaya, Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair at the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University, on “Turkish Origin Migrants and Their Descendants: Hyphenated Identities in Transnational Space” (Palgrave Macmillan). Particularly looking at migration from Turkey to Europe since the 1960s, Kaya argues that home and host coun ... Show More
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