ABSTRACT
What happens when migrants are subjected to two distinct and paradoxical public discourses, one by virtue of their nationality and presupposed religion, and the other by virtue of their education and employment status? Are we to conceive of them as transnational elites, free from the pressures to ‘integrate’, or lump them together with their ‘guestworker’ predecessors who have been continually subject to media, academic and political attention over integration concerns? This introductory chapter unfolds this main puzzle of the book and clarifies the line of inquiry that goes beyond this dualism. Directing the typical questions of migration research to an atypical group of migrants challenges, adds nuance and complements conventional ways of thinking about migration, citizenship and belonging as it reveals the indispensability of an embedded sense of mobility in the lives of highly educated migrants from Turkey. This introductory chapter also introduces the three mobility nexuses developed in the book, which form the three main parts: mobility/migration, mobility/citizenship and mobility/dwelling.
