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Hülya's migration to Germany as self-sacrifice undergone and suffered in love for her parents, and her later biographical individualisation: biographical problems and biographical work of marginalisation and individualisation of a young Turkish woman in Germany

After asking what is typical or general in the life history of Hülya as a migrant worker in Germany and what is exceptional or unique (section 1) the biographical processes of her life history up to the most central episodes of her conventional and estranging pre-arranged marriage and her way out of it through divorce after having stayed in Germany for several years will be delineated (section 2). Before reaching this turning point Hülya not only undergoes the 'common' type trajectory of a migrant worker - the trajectory of being a cultural stranger, of being void of language, of being exploited by hardest sorts of work -, but, in addition, her personal biographical development is retarded by the exceptional, but probably not totally untypical experience of being trapped within a situation of compulsory labour (resembling slave labour). For a long time she also feels obliged to remain in her trajectory position of an isolated migrant worker, since originally she had mainly meant to go to Germany in order to support her poverty stricken family back in Turkey with her earnings. Partly based on the fear that she will get self-alienated and 'petrified' like the older women with whom she dwells and works together Hülya accepts a pre-arranged marriage (probably mainly negotiated by her mother) as the only way out of her predicament. But willy-nilly Hülya must learn that she - already embarked on her way to an individualized and emancipated existence - cannot live in such a superimposed arrangement, and therefore she distances herself from her husband through the biographical escape action schemes first of returning to Germany alone and then of pushing ahead her divorce.

Hülya's migration to Germany as self-sacrifice undergone and suffered in love for her parents, and her later biographical individualisation: biographical problems and biographical work of marginalisation and individualisation of a young Turkish woman in Germany

Urheber*in: Schütze, Fritz

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Alternative title
Hülyas Auswanderung nach Deutschland als Aufopferung aus Liebe zu ihren Eltern: biographische Probleme und biographische Arbeit der Marginalisierung und Individualisierung einer jungen Türkin in Deutschland
ISSN
0172-6404
Extent
Seite(n): 107-126
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Historical Social Research, 31(3)

Subject
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Migration
ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
Migration
Frau
Marginalität
Geschlechtsrolle
Lebenssituation
Ehe
Arbeitssituation
Individualisierung
Emanzipation
Familie
Türke
Rolleneinnahme
Lebenslauf
empirisch
empirisch-qualitativ

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Schütze, Fritz
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Deutschland
(when)
2006

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-29940
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Associated

  • Schütze, Fritz

Time of origin

  • 2006

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