Case Mesut Özil: Migration researcher sees "the perfect example of the turmoil of German Turks"

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D The case of Mesut Özil has several facets: The day after his resignation from the national team, he discusses racism, belonging and integration – and of all that has to do with football. Turkish explorer Haci-Halil Uslucan recounts the findings of a recent study: Özil is a striking example of the obstacles to the integration and turmoil of "German Turks," said Monday in Düsseldorf the launch of a new study of the Turkish Studies Center

The feature is what is called a paradox of integration: the most objectively better integrated people, such as Gelsenkirchen Özil, are often considered as not belonging to society because they are particularly susceptible to social discrimination

"You mean that you have done an active integration job and that you always receive the receipt:" No, you do not belong to it. You are just a German pbadport, "describes the researcher in Essen Migration and the psychologist the sincere rejection.

Fewer migrants identify with both countries

Özil wrote in his resignation Sunday: "I feel involuntary and I think that what I have accomplished since my international debut in 2009 is forgotten . "

Since 2010, the number of Turkish immigrants who feel more related to Turkey than to Germany is rising," reported Uslucan. "This is also due to a very exclusive debate. , triggered inter alia by the controversial book "Germany abolished" by Thilo Sarrazin

In the last representative survey, 61% say they are very attached to Turkey, 38% said that about Germany Since 2010, there has also been a decrease in the number of those who identify – with multiple possible responses – with both countries, and around 48% of those surveyed said yes in 2017 – compared with around 65 % in 2010.

There is still a high level of attachment to Turkey for the next generation, and Uslucan attributed this to, among other things, the overheated Turkish debate in Germany, the Turkish government's advocacy, and the experiences of discrimination.

Güler: The insult of Özil is modeled on many German Turks

This so-called hybrid identity should not be scandalized or dramatized. That two hearts still resonate in the bads of many German Turks is "not a sign of disintegration" but humanly intelligible and politically conditioned. To the extent that the badyzes based on the motto "What have we done wrong?" Should not be exaggerated now, warns the scientist.

Sometimes the feeling of belonging is only a utopia or a desire, according to the study. Deterioration of identification with Germany but in any case social exclusion and lack of prospects

The insult that Özil has made to his spectacular payroll is deeply shaped by many German Turks, reports the State Secretary for Integration NRW Güler (CDU) the Turkish community. Many felt confirmed in their role of victim: "As long as you are good, you will be accepted, as soon as you make a mistake, you will be struck off." Özil was complaining of being "German if we win, but immigrant, if we lose"

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The debate is dangerous because it plays racists in both countries Güler warned. "The nationalists on the Turkish side will say now: You see, you can do what you want, you will never be accepted."

Joachim Stamp (FDP) wants Özil and Ilkay Gündogan, who was also heavily involved in photos joint with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be attacked after the summer holidays for a common conversation about values ​​and invite about their role as a model. He wanted to hold the two best football players "from the Ruhr area" but no sermon on the curtains. "In an open society, we must endure the controversy more calmly," said Stamp.

Unlike Özil Gundogan had already a few days after the publication of the controversial photo to speak and said that he confesses to the German national team, but also carry a Turkish side in itself.