›Inclusion‹ and ›Exclusion‹: Transnational Experiences of Turkish and Kurdish Youth in London

Abstract

Living across the borders of two settlements has constructed different ways of defining › home ‹, and little has been written on the thoughts of second generation migrants about the country of origin, the city of settlement, and local neighbourhing. In this paper, I aim to explore in which ways their relationship with the places they interact with redefines their sense of self and belongingness to the country of origin and the country of settlement. By doing this, I focus on the youngsters' relationship with London, the city they live in, North London where they locally dwell, and the country of origin where they visit at least once in every year.Much research on second generation transnationalism has focused on visits to the country of origin, and transnational networks (