Abstract
This chapter addresses the ways in which migrant women from Turkey challenge their ethnocized and gendered subject positions in relation to their society of residence and its ethnic community. It focuses on the experiences of mothering and family relations, particularly from the daughters' perspective, based on research findings from a project about subjectivity and agency in life stories of women of Turkish background living in Germany. The chapter sketches the public discourses on 'the Turkish family' in Germany and evaluates the dichotomy of 'modern German' versus 'traditional Turkish' gender and family relations. Ethnic minority families from so-called Muslim countries are often conceptualized as embodying a close-knit and traditional family. The process of migration often does not take place at the same time for the whole family.
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