Alevis in Europe: Voices of Migration, Culture , Issa..

Taylor & Francis

Alevis in EuropeVoices of Migration, Culture and Identity\nAuthor(s): Tzn Issa\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472456441, 978-1472456441\nSynopsis\nThe 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? \n\nA range of scholars, writing from sociological, historical, socio-psychological and political perspectives, present analysis and research that shows the Alevi communities grouping and regrouping, defining and redefining sometimes as an ethnic minority, sometimes as religious groups, sometimes around a political philosophy - contingently responding to circumstance.