Multilingual Multi-Sited Ethnography

Mobility and migration multilingualize people and thus open their horizons to the world. This social and cultural fact also became apparent in the context of my ethnographic field research with multigenerational families in the context of transnational labour migration Turkey-Germany. The manifold and diverse linguistic-communicative challenges, positionalities and negotiation processes in methodological as well as social and cultural practice that became visible in this context in the contact and relational relationships will be examplarily illuminated and discussed in this article in a reflective way from my perspective as a field researcher as well as from that of individual members of the GÜN family.