Alevis in Europe: Voices of Migration, Culture and Identity

ISBN-13: 9781472456441 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 252 str.

Tozun Issa

Opis

The Alevis are a significant minority in Turkey, and now also in the countries of Western Europe. Over the past century, many of them have migrated from rural enclaves on the Anatolian plateau to the great cities of Istanbul and Ankara, and from there to the countries of the European Union. This book asks who are they? How do they construct their identities – now and in the past; in Turkey and in Europe? This collection offers a new and significant contribution to the study of migration and minorities in the wider European context.

Recenzje

Alevis in Europe looks at a movement in Turkey and Europe that often gets lost in the glare of attention on orthodox Islam. The origins of the Alevis and whether they are strictly a religion, a way of life, or an ethnicity are disputed.

Religion Watch, Vol.32, No.04

O autorze

Tözün Issa was a senior lecturer and the Director of Centre for Multilingualism in Education at London Metropolitan University. He worked as a course tutor in teacher training programme for bilingual teachers and lectured on inclusive education and minority rights. His research interests included bilingual education and the education of the linguistic minority communities and he coordinated a number of research projects and organised conferences. He also coordinated several community education programmes, particularly around Supplementary Schools in the UK, and wrote extensively on this. His most recent book, co-authored with Alison Hatt, was Language, Culture and Identity in the Early Years (2013).