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GÖKÇE YURDAKUL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University, Canada. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research interests include migration, citizenship, race and ethnicity, gender, and women. She has published in edited books and academic journals, such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, German Politics and Society and Soziale Welt. She is now doing research on how Turkish immigrants and Jews relate to one another in the German diaspora.

Y. MICHAL BODEMANN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Today, his areas of research and teaching include race and ethnic relations, classical sociological theory, qualitative methods, Jewish studies, and especially German-Jewish relations and memory. He has published numerous articles and books on Jews in Germany, notably his book, Gedächnistheater. Die jüdische Gemeinschaft und ihre deutsche Erfindung, (Theatre of Memory. The Jewish Community and its German Invention, 1996). He is conducting further research on Jews in contemporary Germany. His most recent monograph is A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait (Duke University Press, 2004).

Gökçe Yurdakul and Michal Bodemann are the editors of Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).