Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Marcia C. Schenck

Professor of Global History, Historisches Institut

Universität Potsdam ,

Germany

Political Culture

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News from Migrant Knowledge Network members and about other associated events Members are invited to share theirs as well.

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West German experts emphasized cultural otherness as an impediment to the employment—and "emancipation"—of Turkish migrant women instead of attending to the women's testimony about the practical impediments they faced in a system built on the unpaid labor of housewives.

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