Debates on inter-ethnic marriages: assimilation or integration? The Turkish perspective

Gültekin, Mehmet Nuri

doi:10.5565/rev/papers/v97n1.282

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“…Intermarriage has important implications for the next generation who will have mixed or multiple ethnicities as a result of assimilation, integration and hybridization. As an indicator of integration, it is also a pointer to the progress of multiculturalism in ethnically diverse societies (Nuri, 2012).…”

Section: Manifestations Of National Integrationmentioning

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The Realities of National Integration in Cameroon

Ngwoh¹

2019

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The Realities of National Integration in Cameroon 1.Introduction With a surface area of about 475 442 square kilometers, Cameroon is one of the most heterogeneous states of the African continent, a real cultural mosaic due to its geography and history. She is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural entity wherein nation building has been a challenge of encouraging the development of a melting pot of the people who are distinguished into four cultural groups, namely Sawa, Grass fields, Fang-Beti, Sudano-Sahelian. The fatherland has been described as "all of Africa in a single country" because she exhibits all ecological features of the continent: coast, desert, mountain, rainforest, and savanna (Besong and Ngwasiri, 1995). Even in terms of ethnicity, she is still like Africa, a continent that is a microcosm of the world. Cameroon has remained jealous of her cultural heritage and resolved to preserve it. With more than 250 ethnic groups, Cameroon whose total population is about 25 million inhabitants, is ethnically, culturally, and linguistically, one of the most diversified countries of Africa. National integration is a core value of nation building which is the practice of socio-political development or art of national construction that allows initially loosely linked communities during a long duree to become a common society with a nation-state corresponding to it. Bandyopadhyay and Green identify nine nation-building policies that have been implemented in at least eight instances in Africa. Some countries like Guinea-Bissau, Rwanda and Togo applied only one policy each since independence while both Nigeria and Uganda executed all (2012: 3). In the case of Cameroon since colonial times, fourteen nation building approaches, classified into four broad themes namely indigenization, harmonization, centralization and building citizenship have been applied. Indigenization policies include the renaming of country, altering city names and the changing of national currency. Bilingualism, national integration and relocation of political headquarters have engendered harmonization in the country. Those policies based on centralization were forged from the creation of a unitary state and monolithic political system, the encouragement of national integration, authoritarian rule and the nationalization of land. The building of citizenship involves four aspects namely regular general population censuses, defining nationality, military conscription and civic education (Ngwoh, 2017). This paper, which focuses on national integration, begins by analyzing various theoretical frameworks upon which the policy operates. It then goes further to invoke its necessity by indicating that it has got blissful, opinionated, communal and intellectual underpinnings. The role of colonialism, national patriots and political leaders has also been explained as well as an indication of legal parameters that uphold the tenets of integration. The essay also paints a picture of how this policy has permeated almost all aspects of national life. It does this b...

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Section: Manifestations Of National Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Realities of National Integration in Cameroon

Ngwoh¹

2019

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“…Bu çalışmalara göre Türk-Kürt evliliklerinin genel eğilimi Türk kadınlarla Kürt erkekler arasında yapılmasıdır. Gültekin (2012), bu iki çalışma üzerine yaptığı değerlendirmede Kürt kadınlarının çapraz evliliklerdeki az oranını hala güçlü olan yarı-feodal değerler sistemine ve onları akrabalarının himayesinde ve ev içinde tutan kültürel biçimlere dayandırıyor (Gültekin 2012, 156). Bu toplumsal şartlarda kapalı topluluk yapısındaki Kürtlerden öncelikli olarak erkekler modern devlet sistemiyle ilişki kurup eğitim alırken Kürt kadınları topluluğun namusunun simgesi ve ataerkil aile yapısının sonucu olarak ev/topluluk içinde tutuluyor.…”

Section: Türkiye'de çApraz Evlilikler üZerine çAlışmalarunclassified

Çapraz Evlilikler ve Gruplar Arası İlişkiler

ÜLKÜCAN¹

2015

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Öz: Bu makale, farklı kimlik ve kültürel gruplardan bireyler arasında gerçekleşen çapraz evlilik alanındaki çalışmaların önemini göstermeyi amaçlamaktadır. Özellikle ayrıştırıcı toplumsal kategoriler üzerinden konumlanan gruplardan bireylerin evlilik gibi yakın bir ilişkiye girmesi bireylerin ve grupların kimlik algılarını ve ilişkilerini değiştirip temas kurmalarını sağlayabilmektedir. Uluslararası araştırmaların gösterdiği gibi bu evlilikler grup sınırlarının dönüşümüne ve ön yargıların azalmasına da katkı sağlamaktadır. Bu makalede çapraz evlilik araştırmalarının dönüştürücü ve olumlu potansiyelleri, uluslararası ve ulusal literatür gözden geçirilerek tartışılmaktadır. Abstract:This article aims to demonstrate the significance of intermarriages between individuals from different cultural and identity groups. Specifically, close interactions such as intermarriages between individuals from groups constituted by excluding social categories, that may allow individuals and groups to build contact through changing their perceptions and relations. As international research shows, these marriages contribute to the transformation of group boundaries and diminishing prejudices. In this article, the transformative and positive potentials of intermarriages are discussed by means of an overview of the national and international literature.

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“…Though racial preferences in partner choice exist in Turkey in that 'European looks' are favoured in the marriage market (Magnarella, 1976), the effect of universalism, however, is that an a-priori and lump-sum segregation (such as an antimiscegenation law in the style of Virginia's 'Racial Integrity Act' of 1924) towards any group with darker skin colour has never been the case in Turkey, similar to almost all other universalistic ethnie. Hence, intermarriage is not rare among Turkey's Kurds (Gültekin, 2012) and it was even explicitly promoted in the early periods of Turkish nationalism (Uzer, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%