TURKISH BERLIN GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNITY Susan E. Clarke, Series Editor Dennis R. Judd, Founding Editor 21 Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space Annika Marlen Hinze 20 Struggling Giants: City-Region Governance in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo Paul Kantor, Christian Lefèvre, Asato Saito, H.V. Savitch, and Andy Thornley 19 Does Local Government Matter? How Urban Policies Shape Civic Engagement Elaine B. Sharp 18 Justice and the American Metropolis Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom, editors 17 Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, editors 16 Seeking Spatial Justice Edward W. Soja 15 Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity Xiangming Chen, editor 14 A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture John M. Hagedorn 13 El Paso: Local Frontiers at a Global Crossroads Victor M. Ortíz-González 12 Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community William Sites 11 A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound Warren Magnusson and Karena Shaw, editors 10 City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty Ananya Roy 9 Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India’s High-Tech City Smriti Srinivas 8 Fin de Millénaire Budapest: Metamorphoses of Urban Life Judit Bodnár 7 Latino Metropolis Victor M. Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres 6 Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together Manuel Pastor Jr., Peter Dreier, J. Eugene Grigsby III, and Marta López-Garza (continued on page 203) TURKISH BERLIN Integration Policy and Urban Space ANNIKA MARLEN HINZE Globalization and Community, Volume 21 University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Maps drawn by Leah Patgorski Copyright 2013 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hinze, Annika. Turkish Berlin : integration policy and urban space / Annika Marlen Hinze. pages cm. — (Globalization and community ; volume 21) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-7814-3 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8166-7815-0 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Assimilation (Sociology)—Germany—Berlin. 2. Turks—Cultural assimilation. 3. Turks—Germany—Berlin. 4. Group identity—Germany—Berlin 5. Emigration and immigration—Turkey. 6. Emigration and immigration—Germany. I. Title. HM843.H56 2013 303.48´2563043—dc23 2013010389 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is dedicated to my mentors, Sultan Tepe, Dennis Judd, and David Perry. They are an inspiration for me to always be the best scholar I can be. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix IntroductionBabel Berlin, German Immigrant Capital xiii 1. Integration or Exclusion? Understanding Turkish Immigration in Germany 1 2. Talk of the Town: Space, Visibility, and the Contestation of German Identity 33 3. Mein Block:The Neighborhood as a Site of Identity 75 4. Location as Destiny: Integrating Kreuzberg and Neukölln 111 ConclusionLearning from Immigrant Neighborhoods 145 Appendixes A. Zeynep’s and Bilge’s Kreuzkölln 163 B. Berlin Senate 167 C. The Buschkowsky Administration’s Ten-Point Integration Agenda for the District of Neukölln 171 Notes 175 Bibliography 187 Index 197 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A book is never the work of a single person. From the first ideas to the final product, many, many people are involved in its development. This book grew out of what started as a dissertation project in 2006 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, but has since evolved into so much more. Therefore, I want to start by thanking my incredible teachers at UIC, who helped me become the scholar that I am today. The spark that inspired everything was David Perry’s Ph.D. seminar on Contested Cities at the College of Urban Planning and Public Administration at UIC, one of the most stimulating and interesting seminars I have taken in my life, and I will forever remem- ber all his excellent intellectual advice. But I was also inspired by the social context of Chicago. Had I not moved there on that sweltering day in early August 2004, this book would have never been written. Dennis Judd, then graduate director for the Department of Political Science at UIC, was the first professor in Chicago I ever communicated with. His advice and intel- lectual feedback during my first year of graduate studies laid the founda- tion for a way of thinking. My dissertation chair, Sultan Tepe, an incredible role model, has always pushed me to take my mind one step further, to bend it around one more corner. Her amazing intellect and strength were and continue to be both foundation and inspiration for my work. Her gen- uine interest in her students’ intellectual growth makes her one of the best teachers I have ever known! Anthony Orum at the Department of Sociology at UIC and Garbi Schmidt, now at Roskilde University, Denmark, were also irreplaceable intellectual advisors on my dissertation, and their feedback was indispen- sable in moving this project along. During my field research in Berlin, I found a home at the Research Unit for Migration, Integration, and Transnationalization at the Wissenschaft- szentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung; I would like to thank Marc Helbling ix