Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul

Diversity and Social Conflict | Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul

Department of Diversity and Social Conflict

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Name: Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul
Status: professor
Email: gokce.yurdakul (at) sowi.hu-berlin.de

Institution: Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Sozialwissenschaften → G.Simmel Prof. Comparative Studies on Diversity/Social Conflicts
Visiting address: Universitätsstraße 3b , Room 306
Phone number: (030) 2093-66613
Mailing address: Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

My primary research interest is how migratory experiences shape gender and racialized identities in the European context. I use qualitative research methods, specifically face-to-face interviewing, participant observation and critical discourse analysis of media resources in my research. I conducted cross-country comparative research in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Israel, Canada and Turkey. My open access publications are available in my researchgate website in the link above and in the university repositories, including Humboldt University's edoc repository.

Current research project (as of 2021):

Borders, boundaries, and bodies in the production of non-belonging: Regulating the return of European women who joined ISIS (2020-23, funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant, collaborator with Anna Korteweg University of Toronto)

Recently Completed Research Projects:

Getting Respect in Germany: How Turks Respond to Racism (2020-1, funded by the German Center for Migration and Integration Research, Racism Monitoring Program, principal investigator) The website of the project is here.
Media, Migrants and Politics: Comparative Study of Media Representations of Immigrants in Australia and Germany (2019-2021, funded by the Berlin University Alliance, equal PIs with Karen Ferquharson University of Melbourne) The website of the project is here.
Border-Making in Berlin: Sexual Citizenship and Social Boundaries in Street Sex-Work (2019-20): Through a micro-level ethnographic study immigrant street sex-workers, Tunay Altay and I attempt to show the new forms of border-making through social boundaries in city scapes. This project is still ongoing, and the initial results will be presented as a conference paper. Output: "Crossing borders: The intersectional marginalization of Bulgarian Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers in Berlin", published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2020).
Body Politics, Bioethics and Gendered Identities (funded by the German-Israeli Science Foundation, 2016-2019): The website of this project is here.
The Transformative Forces of Migration: Refugees and the Configuration of Migration Societies (2015-16): Two outputs are compilation of Humboldt students' research as an edited book (E-Book) and a peer-reviewed special issue with international researchers' articles (special issue, co-edited with Ulrike Hamann).