ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the connotations of ownership and location of modernity and tradition in the imaginative geography of East and West. It reviews the concept of appropriation in light of these problematic ideas of ownership. The chapter examines the research context, and considers the changes in bodily practices that follow migration. It investigates the performance of modernity and tradition in these bodily movements and posture. The chapter explores the appropriation of modernity and tradition in light of the fieldwork. The informants suggested that the Dutch are poorly informed, as they only know people from the rural areas of Turkey and this group has supposedly grown even more conservative in the Netherlands. The geographical imagination of modernity and tradition has immense implications for immigrants who relocated from areas that were not primarily associated with modernity to countries such as the Netherlands, which lie within the supposed cradle of modernity.
