Love, Luck and Long Distances. Choice and Chance in Turkish Women’s Emigration Stories

By Marcy Brink-Danan
English

This paper analyzes the peregrinations of recent Jewish women émigrés from Turkey. Due to perceived increases in anti-Semitism and sharp demographic decline among Jews in Turkey, many Turkish Jewish women today go long distances in search of love. Based on initial fieldwork in Istanbul, reunions with Turkish Jewish friends post-emigration and follow-up interviews, I argue that, even in light of their active global pursuits, Turkish Jewish women are ambivalent about the role of choice and chance in their own life decisions and geographic trajectories.

Keywords

  • Turkey
  • Diaspora
  • migration
  • demographics
  • cosmopolitanism
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