In this article I will analyse the way in which Islam becomes an identity discourse for the Turkish immigrant in Germany. It aims to show how the Turkish Muslim immigrant is constructed in relation to a variety of other identities already conferred upon him or her. That is, Muslim Turkish immigrants have already been discursively elaborated according to their ethnicity, their 'Third Worldness', their underdevelopment, their traditionality, or their oppression of women. These discourses are…
