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Following the “revival process” of Bulgaria, about 360,000 Turks emigrated to Turkey, the “dreamland” for many, in 1989. For the immigrants, permanent residence areas were built on the outskirts of cities like Ankara and Istanbul. This paper, through the data of ongoing ethnographic fieldwork, looks at the adaptation strategies of those immigrants who settled in the Göçmen Konutları area in Istanbul, which now neighbours an Islamist satellite town, Başakşehir. The contrast between the two neighborhoods illustrates how the memories from Bulgaria are revived, how the transnational immigrant identity is reproduced, and how physical and mental segregation fosters the contestation of “homeland” and “dreamland”.
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Şahin-Malkoç, N. (2014). »Homeland« in »Dreamland«? Space and Identity in Göçmen Konutlari . In: Kamp, K., Kaya, A., Keyman, E., Onursal Besgul, O. (eds) Contemporary Turkey at a Glance. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04916-4_13
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