Turkish Migration to the United States: From Ottoman Times to the Present

From: A DENIZ BALGAMIS <balgamis@facstaff.wisc.edu>
List Editor: Mark Stein <stein@MUHLENBERG.EDU>
Editor’s Subject: H-TURK: New book [D Balgamis]
Author’s Subject: H-TURK: New book [D Balgamis]
Date Written: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:21:01 -0400
Date Posted: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:21:01 -0400

 
Dear Colleagues,

The Center for Turkish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
announces the publication of a new book titled “Turkish Migration to the
United States: From Ottoman Times to the Present” edited by A. Deniz
Balgamis and Kemal H. Karpat.

You may order the book from the University of Wisconsin Press website
at

CONTENTS

Introduction
Kemal H. Karpat

PART I SOURCES AND APPROACHES TO OTTOMAN/
TURKISH MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES

The History of Turkish Migrations: A Research Agenda
Rudolph J. Vecoli

Forging New Links in the Early Turkish Migration Chain: The U.S.
Census and early Twentieth Century Ships’ Manifests
John J. Grabowski

PART II HISTORICAL OVERVIEW AND CASE STUDIES

The Emigration from the Ottoman Empire to America
Nedim İpek and K. Tuncer Çağlayan

Reflections of the First Muslim Immigration to America in Ottoman
Documents
Mehmet Uğur Ekinci

From Anatolia to the New World: The First Anatolian Immigrants to
America
Rıfat N. Bali

Conflict and Cooperation: Diverse Ottoman Ethnic Groups in Peabody,
Massachusetts
Işıl Acehan

“Home Away from Home: Early Turkish Migration to the United States
Reflected in the Lives and Times of Bayram Mehmet and Hazım Vasfi”
Emrah Şahin

PART III RECENT IMMIGRATION

New Migration, Old Trends: Turkish Immigrants and Segmented
Assimilation in the United States
Mustafa Saatçi

A Profile of Immigrant Women from Turkey in the United States,
1900-2000
Ayşem R. Şenyürekli

Migration from Giresun to the United States: The Role of Regional
Identity
Lisa DiCarlo

Turkish Immigrants in the United States: Men, Women and Children
Müzeyyen Güler

The Turks Finally Establish a Community in the United States
Kemal H. Karpat

Turkish Islam (with Introduction by Kemal H. Karpat)
Lloyd A. Fallers

Contributors

Bibliography

Index

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Deniz Balgamis, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison