The objective of the paper was to evaluate Turkey’s integration prospects into European structures and relationships between immigration from Turkey and economic indicators in Germany using quantitative methods. Despite Turkey’s unclear European integration prospects, it is predicted that...

While calling for culturally sensitive healthcare services in migrant communities, the internation-al nursing literature on intercultural care predominantly describes nursing staff as lacking cultur-al competences and immigrant customers as lacking cleverness to navigate the labyrinths of...

What is the perception of Turkish migrants in elderly care? The increasing number of elder migrants within the German and Austrian population is causing the challenge of including them in an adequate (culturally sensitive) way into the German/Austrian health care system. Here I introduce the...

This paper examines immigration and irregularity in times of both economic growth and recession in Turkey with reference to a conflict model of migration. Dealing effectively with irregularity requires a wider-than-migration perspective, and regional and global cooperation between all...

Overqualification among migrants, defined as being employed in a job that is below their acquired skill levels through education, is well-known. Recent studies show that overqualification is more likely amongst migrants who work in the older EU15 member states. Similar studies carried out in the...

This study examines the ways in which the city image of Istanbul is re-created through the mega-events within the context of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) 2010. Istanbul “took the stage” as one of the three ECoC cities (Essen for the Ruhr in Germany and Pécs in Hungary), where the...

Turkey’s accession to the European Union has turned out to be a very long saga. One of the concerns in Europe is that Turkey’s membership would open the way for millions of immigrants from Turkey arriving in Western European member states, as was believed to be the case with Eastern European...

This paper focuses on the role of school in identity formation of Turkish Cypriot, Kurdish and Turkish youths (thereaf-ter TCKT) living in London and explores the perceptions of young people about their school life, mainly focusing on secondary school experiences, and exploring the difficulties...

Changes in the global business environment are driving changes to the way business schools deliver higher education. However, the long debated gap be-tween academia and industry (research-practice) remains unsolved. This paper explores the integration of research-teaching activities as an...

This paper outlines a research process entwined with delivery of a final year elective module "Managing Strategic Design". The research has been based on six roundtable discussions with a variety of participants from Design and Busi-ness communities. The module challenges these students to...