Workbook
For Turkish German Families
Gastarbeiter Legacy, Identity, and the Relationships Between Generations
Germany said your grandparents were guests. Your family built a home. This is where you name it.
For the Turkish German family naming what three generations built beyond the Gastarbeiter framing.
The Name It First Experience
Your family's history in Germany is specific. The Gastarbeiter program brought Turkish workers as temporary labor. They stayed. They built families and communities. And Germany has spent decades telling their descendants they do not quite belong. Your family has been building a home in that context. This workbook gives your family space to name what Turkish German means in your household. The output is not a history of migration policy. It is your signed family agreement.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What word describes what being Turkish German means in your household — and do different generations in your family have different answers?
- When you look at what your family brought from Turkey and what your children are building in Germany, what do you notice about the gap — and what conversations has your family had about it?
- What would your family's identity document look like if each generation named what being Turkish German means to them — and your family wrote it down together?
Research basis
Cross (1971, 1991) Nigrescence Model adapted to Turkish German identity / Helms (1990) racial identity statuses / Berry (1997) acculturation strategies / Crenshaw (1989, 1991) intersectionality / Brah (1996) Cartographies of Diaspora applied to Turkish diaspora in Germany / Hall (1990) Cultural Identity and Diaspora / Mandel (2008) Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany / cultural frameworks of Almanci (German Turk) identity, Turkish Islamic identity in Germany, and generational identity shifts / Soysal (1994) Limits of Citizenship on Turkish Germans and European belonging / Chin (2007) The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany / intergenerational dynamics in Turkish German families (White, 1997).
Choose your format.
Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
Print Paperbackpersonalize
A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
$22.99
eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
Not available
Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
Not available
Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
Not available
Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$12.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
Not available
Everything packages
The Paperback Everything Package
[personalize]
Not available
The Hardcover Everything Package
[personalize]
Not available
The Premium Hardcover Everything Package
[personalize]
Not available
Already own this title? Add any other format from your account.
Choose your pace.
The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
Already own this title? Add any other format from your account.
Buy it for yourself.
Choose your format above.