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This article deals with the circumstances experienced by those children who not only were affected by the emigration of their parents, but who also showed a high mobility volume themselves. This was accomplished by focusing on children of Turkish migrants from the "guest worker" era in Germany. Due to multiple migration processes, they have had to adapt to diverse transnational family arrangements early in their lives. In general, many children of Turkish migrants were characterized by transnational childhoods. By examining cases where children were initially left behind in the care of their grandparents in Turkey and followed their parents to Germany later on, the article points out how those migrant children experienced both "close strangers" and "distant intimates." The article thus contributes to the understanding of the relationship between sociality and spatiality in migration processes.

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