Early Turkish Immigrants’ Adaptation to American Culture and Social Integration

Sert Bilal and Ziyanak Sebahattin
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Sert Bilal: Texas Woman’s University, Department of Social Sciences, Denton, Texas
Ziyanak Sebahattin: University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Department of Social Sciences, Odessa, Texas

European Review of Applied Sociology, 2017, vol. 10, issue 15, 21-27

Abstract: Immigration studies still investigate immigrants’ offspring and later generations’ socioeconomic upward and downward motilities. When it comes to early Turkish immigrants, there is an unfilled “missing link” from a sociological point of view. This study explores early Turkish immigrants’ adaptation experiences in the United Sates through qualitative triangulation and the methods of observation. This article utilizes “Straight-line theory”, “decline theory”, and “segmented assimilation to expound early Turkish immigrants’ adaptation experiences in the United States. Drawing on archival documents next to meetings with immigrants’ off springs, this study finds evidence that immigration occurred during the second wave to the United States from Europe, among Turks from Anatolia and Rumelia and they successfully adapted their new social environment. Rather, the findings provide novel evidence on the role of religious view and their social interaction. When seeking early Turks’ socio educational background, we discover that highly educated individuals including religious leaders, professors, and businessmen migrated to Peabody, MA.

Keywords: Early Turkish Immigration; Adaptation; Ottoman Empire–Identity; Intermarriage-Millet; Muslim Turks; Greeks; Armenians; Sephardic Jews (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/eras-2017-0006

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