Turkish migrants on German television: The analysis of TV-serie "Turkish For Beginners"

One of the issues in the field of intercultural communication which is nourished by various disciplines is migration and immigrants which have to be looked and interpreted from different perspectives. Integration theories about social adjustment in different immigration geographies can be evaluated in two different categories as assimilation and multiculturalism. Media serves in the introduction of dominant culture to immigrants and their adoption of it in the studies of integration focused on assimilation, whereas in the studies of multicultural integration media is a significant medium in term of the representation and acceptance of minorities and immigrants. After trying to determine both the dynamics of media and the academic studies done chronologically in this field in the example of immigration and immigrant politics of German, In the empirical part of the thesis, the series of "Turkish for Beginners" are preferred as a research field; discourse analysis is made and focused group meetings are done. In the scope of the study, representations of Turkish immigrant family and its members are tried to be determined and based on these representations, how much the series and the integration policy of German government overlaps is questioned.