%0 Journal Article
%T A Forgotten Migration and Citizenship Experience: First Generation Immigrant Women and The Netherlands Union of Women from Turkey
%A Ece £¿ztan
%J Fe Dergi : Feminist Ele£¿tiri
%D 2010
%I Ankara University
%X Despite acknowledging the feminization of immigration there are a few studies giving immigrant and ethnic minority women greater visibility within receiving country context and using gender as an analytic concept in migration researches. Particularly, there is a tendency that women¡¯s migration has still been acknowledged as ¡°dependant¡± or ¡°secondary¡± migratory movement in guest worker regimes¡¯ traditional ¡°family reunion¡± schemas and issues such as immigrant women¡¯s participation in labour markets, politics and citizenship have been ignored. In this article, I aim to examine immigrant women¡¯s role especially in community services and citizenship struggles focusing on Hollanda T¨¹rkiyeli Kad nlar Birli i (The Netherlands Union of Women from Turkey) founded in 1974 and participant women¡¯s experiences. This study is based on a larger fieldwork conducted in 2007-2008 in the Netherlands including in-depth interviews with women who were previously active in HTKB and the data review from HTKB archives. In the introduction chapter, I review gender and migration relationship in literature. In the second chapter, I focus on first generations Turkish immigrant women¡¯s experiences in labour market and community organization in Dutch context and following chapter specifically their experiences in HTKB. Finally, from the vantage point of immigrant women¡¯s experiences, the article concludes with critics on current political frameworks in the Netherlands based on a neoliberal citizenship perspective that construct immigrant women as a ¡°problem category¡±
%K Migration and gender
%K guest worker regimes
%K the Netherlands
%K immigrant women from Turkey
%K immigrant women organizations
%U http://cins.ankara.edu.tr/goc2.html