Michelle Lynn Kahn. <i>Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish–German Histor</i> y

With this engaging first monograph, Michelle Lynn Kahn delivers transnational history at its most insightful. Foreign in Two Homelands centers on return migration, broadly defined to include cross-border flows of remittances, goods, discourses, images, and people. At its core, the book offers a long-overdue historicization of the migration wave triggered by the 1983 West German “Law for the Promotion of the Voluntary Return of Foreigners,” which encouraged so-called “guest workers” and their families to return to Turkey. In response, 250,000 Turkish citizens returned to their former homeland—“kicked out,” as Kahn puts it (9).