Policing Transnational Protest: Liberal Imperialism and the Surveillance of Anticolonialists in Europe, 1905-1945

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a time period, or topic of inquiry. It is our opinion that the volume’s editors missed the mark when attempting to reach a novice audience interested in learning about Turkish secularism. Providing a list of abbreviations and an expansive chronological table tracing the Ottoman Era to present day (2017), Cambridge University Press attempted to condense a massive amount of time and information in a mere 300 pages. It would prove beneficial had discussion of topics presented in the text expanded, as many cannot be fully grasped in the limited scope. This book suffers due to a lack of editorial oversight: chapters are cluttered with superfluous information and seemingly persist for longer than necessary with each chapter roughly taking up 30–40 pages of text. What makes each chapter worth its read is Lord’s addition of conclusions for each chapter; each is a gem of a reward after a gruelling read that is both neatly and eloquently summed up in a page and a half. Lord meticulously researched the increased visibility of religious politics and the Islamisation of state and society under the current AKP government in Turkey. In doing so, such a narrative may be directly linked to the continued study of the integration of millions of Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war. Students and faculty of graduate programs in migration studies across the United States – among them, City University of New York’s M.A. Program in International Migration Studies, Clark University’s Master’s in International Development and Social Change, DePaul University’s M.S. in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, the University of San Francisco’s Master in Migration Studies, and Tufts University’s Feinstein Center’s graduate degree in Migration Studies – will find Ceren Lord’s Religious Politics in Turkey: From the Birth of the Republic to the AKP valuable for further assessing the many factors greatly impacting migration and immigration policies in contemporary and historical instances of mass mobilisation. The question of how the influx of refugees will impact the socio-political dynamic in Turkey as a result of migration is crucial to further understanding a subject area which, as current events suggest, will continue to rapidly evolve elsewhere in the world.