Migrant, emigrant, immigrant, recent developments in Turkish-Dutch literature

Since the late 1980s, a steady stream of literature has been emerging from circles of the Turkish minority in the Netherlands. The article offers a su rvey of this literature, characterises its main themes and concerns, and de monstrates how successive phases in this literature reflect corresponding p hases in the socialisation of the migrant community. Works by three authors , Halil Gur, Sadik Yemni and Sevtap Baycili are examined in this context an d shown to handle parallel motifs in very different ways, reflecting the co ncerns of the guest-worker, the young second- generation migrant and the in tegrated intellectual respectively.