Migration from Turkey to France: interdisciplinary research and comparative perspectives

CERMOM is pleased to invite you to the international colloquium "Migrations de Turquie en France: état des lieux interdisciplinaire de la recherche et perspectives comparatistes", to be held on January 20 and 21, 2025, in partnership with the Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, the Géographie-Cités laboratory, the DynamiTe labex and the IRISSO laboratory of the Université Paris Dauphine-PSL.
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Colloquium presentation

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the labor agreement between France and Turkey, on April 8, 1965, this colloquium brings together researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to take stock of current research on populations of Turkish origin in France. It will address their social, cultural and geographical roots, as well as the diversity of political and identity constructs that run through them. Notions of transmission and memory will be explored through different narrative forms, inviting dialogue between the academic and artistic worlds, in the presence of Tülin Özdemir (director, Belgium), Mahir Güven (writer, France) and Kenan Görgün (writer, Belgium).

Program

MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2025

9:30 am: Welcome of participants.s - coffee
10h - 10h30 : Introduction

  • Ségolène Débarre (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne)
  • Alexandre Toumarkine (INALCO, CERMOM)
     

10h30 - 12h30 : Panel 1. Politiques publiques, participations politiques

  • Maxime Maréchal (U. Paris-Cité), Des drogmans aux interprètes? Les interprètes en langues de Turquie à l'Ofpra, un cas sociohistorique révélateur des mutations radices des politiques d'asile en France
  • Merve Özkaya (IEP Grenoble) Political participation of Franco-Turks in France: between transnational influence and local commitment
  • Tamerlan Quliyev (U. Strasbourg) La migration des Azerbaïdjanais en France : la diaspora azerbaïdjanaise entre interculturalité et relations diplomatiques
  • Moderation and discussion : Gabrielle Angey (U. Dauphine-PSL)


12:30 - 13:30: Lunch


13:30 - 15:30: Panel 2. Places and territories of immigration from Turkey

  • Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir, Greta Tommasi (U. Limoges) - Turkish margins, yesterday and today. Socio-economic marginalization and spatial relegation in rural areas. The case of Bourganeuf in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
  • Ségolène Débarre, Deniz Kimyon-Tuna (UMR Géographie-Cités) - Transformation of the commercial offer and redefinition of the centralities of Turkish immigration: the case of the gentrification of the faubourg Saint-Denis in Paris.
  • Théo Malçok (EHESS), Mehmet Akgün Rüzgar (Journalist, independent researcher) - What remains of the Mevlana bookshop? Fragmented memories of a place for modalizing belonging in the Little Turkey district.
  • Armand Aupiais, Zelal Koç, Yoann Morvan (CNRS - Aix-Marseille U.) - Kurdistan(s) marseillais : Hypotheses for the ethnography of a migratory dynamic from Turkey to Marseille.
  • Moderation and discussion : Stéphane de Tapia (U. Strasbourg)

 

3:30pm - 4pm : Break - coffee

 

4pm - 6:30pm : Panel 3. Femmes et migrations de Turquie

  • Salzmann Zara (Sorbonne U.) - Entre Invisibilisation et Survisibilisation : Des femmes descendants d'immigré-es originaire de Turquie à Paris et à Berlin
  • Invitée : Tülin Özdemir, réalisatrice, Belgique
  • Projection-Débate : " Les Lunes Rousses ", 2019, 97 min.

  • Moderation and discussion: Camille Schmoll (EHESS)

     

Tuesday, JANUARY 21, 2025

9am - 11am: Panel 4. Mobilités, circulations, intégration

  • Demet Lüküslü (U. Yeditepe) Mobilité et migrations étudiantes de Turquie en France

 

11am - 11:30am: Coffee break


<11:30am - 12:30pm: Panel 5. Constructions of identity and heritage

  • Kerem Görkem Arslan (U. Strasbourg) Migration dynamics and cultural legacies: the Turkish imprint in Alsace
  • Martin Greve (Orient Institut Istanbul) Turkish music in France and Europe: comparative perspectives.
  • Moderation and discussion: Nicolas Elias (INALCO)


12:30pm - 1:30pm: Lunch


1:30pm - 3:30pm: Panel 6. Minority situations

  • Rémi Carcélès (Aix-Marseille U.) How can one be Kurdish (in France and today)?
  • Solène Lange (UPC) Identification, racism and articulation of minority situations in the narratives of Kurdish people who grew up in France
  • Tony Rublon (U. Poitiers) Les pratiques transnationales des originaires de Turquie installés en France
  • Samuel Verley (EHESS) Erwan Kerivel: un acteur français du débat intellectuel et identitaire alévi
  • Moderation and discussion: Olivier Grojean (U. Paris 1)


3:30pm - 4:00pm: Coffee break

 

4:00pm - 4:30pm Investigating one's family history

  • Restitution of student work carried out under the supervision of Sophie Hohmann (INALCO).

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Migration in narrative

  • Guest speakers: Kenan Görgün, writer, Belgium
  • Mahir Güven, writer, France


6:00 pm: Concluding remarks