Check out the book, "Turkish Migration to the United States: From Ottoman Times to the Present" edited by Deniz Balgamis and ITS grant recipient Prof. Kemal Karpat from University of Wisconsin Press.
This is the first attempt to present a comprehensive picture of immigration to the United States from the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, consisting of historical overviews, case studies of recent Turkish immigrants' adaptation to contempo...rary American life and their attitudes towards Islam, and essays on sources.
The contributors include Rifat N. Bali, Lisa DiCarlo, John J. Grabowski, Müzeyyen Güler, Nedim Ipek, Kemal H. Karpat, Mustafa Saatçi, Rudolph J. Vecoli.
"Kemal Karpat and Deniz Balgamis have produced an original and impressive volume of more than a dozen expert papers (based on archival research and oral history) concerning Turkish immigration to the United States from the Ottoman period to today. For the first time, this rich and nuanced set of papers provides readers with an informed, fascinating and comprehensive investigation of this diverse migration stream, which began around 1860 and continues to the present. In publishing this edited book, Karpat and Balgamis have performed a valuable service for scholars and students of international migration. This scholarly volume is a welcome and significant contribution to historical immigration studies and will no doubt be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of immigration and settlement in the United States from this increasingly important part of the world."—Joseph Chamie, Research Director at the Center for Migration Studies, and Editor of the International Migration Review
A. Deniz Balgamis, PhD in History, is the Associate Director of the Center for Turkish Studies and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Turkish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Kemal H. Karpat is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His books include Ottoman Population, 1830–1914 and The Politicization of Islam, both of which analyze the effects of migration on social change.
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