Michelle Lynn Kahn is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Richmond. Her research examines post-1945 Germany and Europe in a global and transnational frame, focusing on migration, racism, far-right extremism, gender, and sexuality. She was awarded the 2019 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize of the German Historical Institute and the 2022 Chester Penn Higby Prize of the American Historical Association.

'A complex interlacing of multiple histories: of West Germany and Turkey; of Cold War Europe and postwar migration; of governments, businesses, and schools. Running through all of these are the stories of individuals and families who left home and were never quite able to return. That Kahn doesn't lose sight of the people most affected makes her book wonderfully engaging … While her subjects struggled to find belonging in either homeland, Kahn's book should have no trouble finding its place as a critical contribution to the study of modern European and migration histories.' Sarah Thomsen Vierra, Central European History

• Introduction: The Woman with the German House; Part I. Separation Anxieties; 1. Sex, Lies, and Abandoned Families; 2. Vacations across Cold War Europe; 3. Remittance Machines; Part II. Kicking out the Turks; 4. Racism in Hitler's Shadow; 5. The Mass Exodus; 6. Unhappy in the Homeland; Epilogue: The Final Return?; Bibliography.

Michelle Lynn Kahn is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Richmond. Her research examines post-1945 Germany and Europe in a global and transnational frame, focusing on migration, racism, far-right extremism, gender, and sexuality. She was awarded the 2019 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize of the German Historical Institute and the 2022 Chester Penn Higby Prize of the American Historical Association.

'A complex interlacing of multiple histories: of West Germany and Turkey; of Cold War Europe and postwar migration; of governments, businesses, and schools. Running through all of these are the stories of individuals and families who left home and were never quite able to return. That Kahn doesn't lose sight of the people most affected makes her book wonderfully engaging … While her subjects struggled to find belonging in either homeland, Kahn's book should have no trouble finding its place as a critical contribution to the study of modern European and migration histories.' Sarah Thomsen Vierra, Central European History

• Introduction: The Woman with the German House; Part I. Separation Anxieties; 1. Sex, Lies, and Abandoned Families; 2. Vacations across Cold War Europe; 3. Remittance Machines; Part II. Kicking out the Turks; 4. Racism in Hitler's Shadow; 5. The Mass Exodus; 6. Unhappy in the Homeland; Epilogue: The Final Return?; Bibliography.