This thesis examines the history of Turks migrated from Turkey to Rochester and their changing constructions of identities. In the early 1960&rsquo / s, there was only a small group of Turkish immigrants in Rochester, who were well educated professionals. After 1967, Turkish tailors and their families, who were seeking better employment in Western countries started to migrate to Rochester. Different than the common aspect of homeland based Turkish labor migration to West, Turkish tailors in Rochester came from different cities of Turkey. As a result of the communication between high skilled Turks and the tailor-migrants, Turkish Society of Rochester was founded as a distinctive immigrant association. This study focuses on Turkish Society of Rochester and the other Turkish organizations in Rochester which were established after 1990&rsquo / s, in order to investigate the role of ethnic, cultural and political identities on the formation of collective behavior of Turks in Rochester. The thesis considers the concept of integration as a bidirectional phenomenon, whereby Turks can integrate with the larger American society and/or with the Turkish community within the US as well. This study has concluded that the religious identity is becoming more prominent within the changing social context of Rochester.

La migration en provenance de Todgha (province deTinghir-Maroc) et à destination des pays européens remonte à plus d’un demi-siècle. Dans sa première phase, elle était temporaire. Cette tendance a évolué vers la fixation dès que la migration familiale a été déclenchée.Depuis, cette migration a connu de profondes mutations accompagnées d’une importante mobilité transnationale entre Todgha et l’espace européen. L’étendue de l’aire géographique de sa dispersion et l’attachement au pays d’origine a créé un espace transnational structuré par des réseaux communautaires et relationnels qui voient circuler aussi bien les individus que les marchandises et les idées.Le migrant a importé, reproduit et adapté ce qu’il a appris ailleurs pour participer au développement de son territoire d’origine tant au niveau, économique, culturel, social, environnemental que politique. Son implication dans la pratique citoyenne locale, se traduit dans le temps par des changements. De même qu’il a su crée rune jonction d’enjeux sur le territoire et un poids sur les acteurs locaux.Par sa présence partagée, il reste comme une composante dont il faut tenir compte pour comprendre le processus des transformations dont émerge cette oasis depuis des décennies / Migration from Todgha (Tinghir province-Morocco) to European countries had refer more than half a century. Firstly, had temporary. This trend has evolved towards securing soon as family migration wastriggered. Since then the migration has experienced profound changes accompanied by significant transnational-mobility between Todgha and the European area. The extent of the geographical area of its dispersion and attachment to the country of origin has created a transnational space that structured by community and relational networks then followed individuals and goods and ideas. The migrant had imported, reproduce, and adapt what he learned in the country of destination to participate in the developing his country of origin, as well as economic, cultural, social, environmental, and political. His involvement in local civic practice, resulting intime by changes. Containment it has created a joint stake in the territory and a weight on local players. Shared by his presence, it remains as a component to b econsidered to understand the process of transformation emerges this oasis for decades.