Abstract
In 1933 the Turkish Republic formally offered university positions to 30 German-speaking academics who were dismissed with the coming to power of the National Socialist Government. That initial number went up to 56 with the inclusion of the technical assistants. By 1948 the estimated total had increased to 199. Given renewable five-year contracts with salaries substantially higher than their Turkish counterparts, the foreign émigrés were to implement the westernization program of higher education. The ten year-old secular Turkish Republic's extensive social reforms had encompassed the adoption of the Latin alphabet, and equal rights for women, removing gender bias in hiring. Such a high concentration of émigré academics in one institution, "the highest anywhere in the world," provides a unique opportunity to study a subject which has been neglected. In this article two cases in psychology will be examined: Wilhelm Peters (1880-1963), who came, via Britain, to Istanbul in 1936 from the University of Jena in Germany, and Muzafer Sherif (1906-1988) who went to the United States from Ankara University in 1945. The purpose of the comparative analysis is to identify the features that are specific to the German experience, and those that are shared and underlie translocation in science within the multifaceted complexity of the process of forced migration.
TY - JOUR
T1 - A variation on forced migration: Wilhelm Peters (Prussia via Britain to Turkey) and Muzafer Sherif (Turkey to the United States).
A1 - Russell,Gül,
PY - 2016/7/9/entrez
PY - 2016/7/9/pubmed
PY - 2017/3/10/medline
KW - Carolyn Wood Sherif
KW - Cyril Burt
KW - Fluegel
KW - Frederick Golla
KW - German émigrés
KW - Maudsley
KW - Muzafer Sherif (1906–1988)
KW - Phillip Schwartz
KW - Turkish Republic
KW - University reform
KW - Wilhelm Peters (1880–1963)
KW - cultural transfers
KW - forced migration
KW - neuroscience
KW - race psychology
KW - social psychology
KW - émigré neuropathologists
SP - 320
EP - 47
JF - Journal of the history of the neurosciences
JO - J Hist Neurosci
VL - 25
IS - 3
N2 - In 1933 the Turkish Republic formally offered university positions to 30 German-speaking academics who were dismissed with the coming to power of the National Socialist Government. That initial number went up to 56 with the inclusion of the technical assistants. By 1948 the estimated total had increased to 199. Given renewable five-year contracts with salaries substantially higher than their Turkish counterparts, the foreign émigrés were to implement the westernization program of higher education. The ten year-old secular Turkish Republic's extensive social reforms had encompassed the adoption of the Latin alphabet, and equal rights for women, removing gender bias in hiring. Such a high concentration of émigré academics in one institution, "the highest anywhere in the world," provides a unique opportunity to study a subject which has been neglected. In this article two cases in psychology will be examined: Wilhelm Peters (1880-1963), who came, via Britain, to Istanbul in 1936 from the University of Jena in Germany, and Muzafer Sherif (1906-1988) who went to the United States from Ankara University in 1945. The purpose of the comparative analysis is to identify the features that are specific to the German experience, and those that are shared and underlie translocation in science within the multifaceted complexity of the process of forced migration.
SN - 1744-5213
UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/27388256/A_variation_on_forced_migration:_Wilhelm_Peters__Prussia_via_Britain_to_Turkey__and_Muzafer_Sherif__Turkey_to_the_United_States__
DB - PRIME
DP - Unbound Medicine
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