The proposed research project grounds itself on a previously-conducted empirical research which explored the Turkish-German second generation’s post-deportation lives in Turkey – specifically in a tourism hub in Southern Turkey, Antalya – in relation to their social integration and psychosocial wellbeing as counter-diasporic subjects who experience stigmatization and exclusion by their co-nationals (cf. Tsuda, 2009; King & Kılınc, 2014) and, also as ex-criminals who have brought their traumas related to social discrimination, being neglected by their parents, ethnic communities or authorities, anxieties related to identity crisis and moral grounds, and imprisonment experiences in Germany.

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