ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on “social space” and explains the positions held by the Turks, referring to their different forms of capital and their power to transform or translate these into each other, that is, their chances for mobility in the Danish social space. It also focuses on the four forms of capital activated as material resources in social space: the economic, the social, the cultural and the symbolic. The chapter looks at the reproduction mix of the Turkish families in Gellerup by placing the emphasis on inter-family relationships. The story of the Turkish immigrant is very much a story of unemployment and joblessness. The existence of such ambivalence also draws attention to clear differences regarding the social space in two different, Danish and Turkish, contexts. The strategy of invisibility seems to be the secret, or the cornerstone, of the Turks’ construction of their temporality and spatiality.
