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来源： Identity 2014-volume 21 number 5

Migration and the dialogue of multiple identifications: Kurdish migrants in the tourist industry of Istanbul

Femke Sonnenschein and Toon van Meijl

This article examines the cultural dilemmas proceeding from the multiple identifications of Kurdish migrants working in the multicultural environment of Istanbul’s tourist industry. Since identifications invariably multiply when migrants enter multicultural environment, the question emerges how migrants copy with increasing identifications? How are multiple identifications related within self? In this article, there questions are addressed. First, by analyzing how Kurds explain ethnic stereotypes of themselves with reference to migration from the region of the origin. Furthermore, conflicts and ambiguities between identifications as individual migrant and identifications as family member are investigated. Third, identifications of the ‘villager’ versus the ‘urbanite’ are reviewed, while, finally, the role of ‘learning‘in the migration process for Kurdish identifications will be highlighted. Dialogical self theory is used to situate the analysis of cultural dilemma and contradictions of migrants in multicultural societies. 

Keywords Turkey, Kurds, family, identity, migration, multiple identifications, self, dialogue