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deThis article emerged as a part of my biographical and interactional and analytical pilot study to show narrative identity and biographical development of students of German Studies with Turkish origin in Istanbul. Those students or young adults had been socialised in Germany and moved to Turkey, predominantly due to family matters. The focus of the following analysis of the biographical interview with the informant Ali is the biographical development process and the gradual production of its self-location beyond ethno-national categories. In Ali’s reconstruction of his biographical development, direct references can be made to the Priesian models in particular to migration and integration: While Ali’s parents orientate themselves on the model of the „guest worker“, who „returns“ to his/her home country after living abroad for a limited period of time, Ali develops for himself the way of life as a „transmigrant“. In the narrative production of identity aspects, there are also clear agreements with those of Sievers et. al. who described charakteristics of a transmigrant. Result of the study show that drastic experiences in the German educational life are focused in the childhood and youth of the guest worker child. But in coping with the problems, the narrator manages to represent himself as a strong and assertive actor. After the whole family moves back to Turkey the confrontation with the Turkish environment plays a central role, which leads to the successive separation from both living environments and to the development of a new transmigrational self-image.

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