LITTLE TURKEY IN GREAT BRITAIN by Ibrahim Sirkeci, Tuncay Bilecen, Yakup
Costu, Saniye Dedeoglu, M. Rauf Kesici, B. Dilara Seker, Fethiye Tilbe,
K. Onur Unutulmaz is about Turkish movers in Britain. Turkish migration
to British Isles has a long history but sizeable diaspora communities
and enclaves of Turkish origin have emerged only in the last four to
five decades. Earlier groups arrived were Cypriots fleeing the troubled
island in the Eastern Mediterranean whilst Turks and Kurds of the
mainland were not even considering the UK as a destination. This book is
about these contemporary movers from Turkey, their movement
trajectories, practices, and integration in Britain. Eight researchers
from different disciplinary backgrounds and methodological schools came
together to do the ground work for the students of this emerging
subfield of human mobility studies. Turkey is now at the forefront of
accommodating large scale inward mobility mostly due to the crisis in
Syria and Iraq.