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Through the lenses of Social Identity Theory, this thesis endeavours to understand how perceptions of intergroup relations and in-group identifications affect the choice for different mobility strategies and forms of political participation among the second-generation Turkish migrants in the Netherlands. To this end, two political participation paths are specified: ethnic and mainstream. The former is defined as promoting ethnic group interests in the political arena while the latter is defined as participation in national Dutch politics. Perceptions of illegitimate and unstable status differences, of impermeable group boundaries, and of discriminatory intergroup relations are expected to contribute to the choice for collective mobility strategy and ethnic political participation mediated by Turkish identification. Conversely, legitimate, stable and permeable intergroup conditions are hypothesized to lead to the choice for individual mobility strategy and mainstream political participation through affecting Dutch identification. Three path models including perceptions of legitimacy, stability, permeability and discrimination as predictors, Dutch and Turkish identification as mediators, mobility strategies as both outcomes and mediators, and ethnic and mainstream political participation as outcomes were tested in a sample of 161 participants. Results generally confirmed the expectations except for the stability hypothesis. The theoretical implications of the findings are discussed.

A travers une enquête sociologique sur les clubs de football « turcs » implantés en France et en Allemagne, notre recherche doctorale prend pour objet la fabrication du regroupement sportif à caractère « communautaire ». Après avoir attesté, dans un premier chapitre, de la présence assez importantede clubs « turcs » dans le fossé du Rhin supérieur, nous cherchons surtout à répondre à deux questions partiellement liées : comment peut-on expliquer que les immigrés originaires de Turquie présentent un vigoureux développement sportif associatif ? Et quels sont les principaux ressorts sociaux et ethnico-culturels du football entre-soi ? Dans notre analyse, nous montrons que le « regroupement sportif turc » est essentiellement le produit d’une assignation imposée « de l’extérieur », exprimant un rapport de domination sociale et symbolique, et d’une affirmation venue « de l’intérieur », mettant directement en jeu des schèmes culturels et sociaux hérités du passé et issus d’un « ethos populaire ». En mobilisant notamment la notion de « culture de contre-stigmatisation », nous défendons alors l’idée que le football opère comme un vecteur de réhabilitation symbolique auprès de populations minoritaires aux origines sociales modestes. / Through a sociological investigation of Turkish football clubs implanted in France and Germany, the object of my doctoral research is to explore the creation of sports organizations of a “community based” character. After having attested to the fairly substantial presence of Turkish clubs in the UpperRhine valley, in the first chapter, I principally try to answer two partially linked questions: 1) How can one explain that Turkish immigrants have such a vigorous associative sports development? 2) What are the principal social and ethno-cultural motivations of football among one’s peers? In my analysis, I show that this “Turkish sports grouping” is essentially an assignation expressing a social and symbolic domination imposed upon them “from the outside” as well as an “internal” affirmationdirectly bringing into play cultural and social patterns inherited from the past and stemming from a “popular ethos”. Most notably by using the notion of “the culture of counter-stigmatization”, I defend the idea that football operates as a vector of the symbolic rehabilitation for minority populations of modest social origins.