Of course, the impact of the Holocaust in Germany can not be compared to
any fire bombings. However, we believe that the leaders of the Turkish associa-
tions in Germany make this comparison to point out the similarities between
racism and anti-Semitism.
Homi K. Bhabha, ed., Nation and Narration (London: Routledge, 1990).
Sujit Choudhry, “National Minorities and Ethnic Immigrants: Liberalism’s
Political Sociology,” Journal of Political Philosophy 10, no. 1 (2002): 55. We use the
word minority for the sake of brevity here. Minority should be read as any group
that does not fit the ideal of a homogeneous national collectivity and that has
been involuntarily incorporated into the state, such as Jews, Kurds, and Arab
Israelis.
Ibid., 60–61.
Thomas Pogge goes one step further and raises the question of immi-
grants’ children who are assumed to give consent to assimilate, because their
grandparents have immigrated and waived their rights to construct a culturally
distinct group. Thomas W. Pogge, “Accommodation Rights for Hispanics in the
United States,” in Language Rights and Political Theory, ed. W. Kymlicka and A.
Patten (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 105–22.
Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Choudhry, “National Minorities
and Ethnic Immigrants.”
Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (Princ-
eton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
Choudhry, “National Minorities and Ethnic Immigrants.”
Although immigrant associations are significant for our understanding of
the emergence of immigrants as political actors in the receiving state, there are
only a few case studies that focus on this theme. See Adriana Kemp et al., “Con-
testing the Limits of Political Participation: Latinos and Black African Workers
in Israel,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 23, no. 1 (2000): 94–119; Luin Goldring, “The
Gender and Geography of Citizenship in Mexico-U.S. Transnational Spaces,”
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 7 (2001): 501–38. Those focusing on
the interaction between immigrant associations and minorities are even fewer
in number. See Kastoryano, Negotiating Identities, and Jeffrey Peck, “Turks and
Jews: Comparing Minorities in Germany after the Holocaust,” in German Cul-
tures, Foreign Cultures: The Politics of Belonging, ed. Jeffrey Peck (Washington:
AICGS, 1998), 1–16
Will Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and
Citizenship (New York, 2001); Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship; Choudhry,
“National Minorities and Ethnic Immigrants.”
Himani Bannerji, The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism,
Nationalism and Gender (Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2000), 46.
Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular.
Christian Joppke, ed., Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western
Europe and the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998); Christian
