Michelle Lynn Kahn
Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Richmond. She is a scholar of the global and transnational history of Germany after 1945, with expertise in far-right extremism, migration, racism, gender, and sexuality.
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Mar 3, 2026 • 30min
Michelle Lynn Kahn on Turkish migration to Germany
Michelle Lynn Kahn, Associate Professor of Modern European History and author on Turkish-German migration, discusses West Germany's guest worker program and why temporary labor became permanent. She covers rising xenophobia, the 1983 return incentives and 1984 departures, returnees' cultural estrangement in Turkey, and transnational politics shaping migrant identities.
