Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul
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- Name
- Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul
- Status
- professor
- gokce.yurdakul (at) sowi.hu-berlin.de
- Institution
- Humboldt-Universität → Präsidium → Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Sozialwissenschaften → Georg Simmel Professorship in Comparative Studies on Diversity and Social Conflicts
- Visiting address
- Universitätsstraße 3b , Room 306
- Phone number
- (030) 2093-66613
- Mailing address
- Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Gökce Yurdakul is Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Previously, she was the Director of the Department of Social Sciences at her university (2019-21) and the Director of the Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research (BIM, 2022-24). Her research and teaching areas are gender, immigration, citizenship. Her research has been funded by national and international grants. She was a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at the Harvard University (2019), University of South Pacific (Fiji, 2024) and University of Sussex (the UK, 2024). She wrote and edited five books as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Yurdakul is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Intersectional Approach to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality (with Jean Beaman, Liza Mügge, Sarah Scuzzarello and Sirijit Sunanta), scheduled to be published in 2025.
Current Project:
Spaces of Migration (GeRäuMig: Gesellschäftliche Räume der Migration)
Funding Agency: Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (Drittmittel)
Duration: 01.01.2025-31.12.2027
Partner: DeZIM-Community: BIM; University of Bielefeld-Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict & Violence (IKG); University of Osnabrück-IMIS; University of Duisburg-InZentIM
Planned Output: Publications, conferences and transfer
Past Projects:
Intersectional Boundary Processes – Civic organizations and their engagements with refugees
Funding Agency: Berlin University Alliance Oxford-Berlin Research Exchange
Duration: 01.07.2024-30.12.2024
Partner: COMPAS Oxford University
Output: Two workshops with 11 Delegates
Intersektionelle Politik: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen von Immigrant:innen und ihr Engagement für Geflüchtete Frauen und Kinder aus der Ukraine (INTERSECT) (SoSe 2024)
Funding Agency: Berlin University Alliance Open Humboldt Freiräume Award
Duration: 01.04.2024-30.09.2024
Website: https://migsoc.de/intersect/
Output: One essay for general public readership, one public event with Projekt Together
Climate Change, Gender & Immigration
Funding Agency: Erasmus+ Key Action 171 / DAAD
Duration: 01.08.2023 - 31.07.2025
Partner: HU-Agrarökonomie, University of the South Pacific
Output: Faculty & Graduate Student Exchange
Participation and democracy: The role of women and LGBTQ immigrant initiatives from Turkey in Germany under the general project Social Conflicts and Dynamics of Party Competition in Times of Migration and Integration (MigRep)
Funding Agency: BMBFSJ, Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Germany)
Duration: 01.01.2020 – 31.12.2024
Partner: Collaborator with Tunay Altay (PI, Humboldt University of Berlin);
Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM), Berlin
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (InZentIM), Duisburg-Essen
Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Mannheim
Website: here
Output: Two journal articles under review, one in preparation
Borders, boundaries, and bodies in the production of non-belonging: Regulating the return of European women who joined ISIS
Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant
Duration: 2020-2023
Partner: Collaborator with Anna Korteweg (Principal Investigator, University of Toronto)
Website:here
Output: Journal articles
- Korteweg, Anna and Gökce Yurdakul (forthcoming in 2024) „Non-Belonging: Borders, Bodies and Boundaries at the Interface of Migration and Citizenship Studies“ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
- Korteweg Anna, Gökce Yurdakul, Jillian Sunderland and Marloes Streppel (2023) "Social Reproduction Gone Wrong? The Citizenship Revocation and Rehabilitation of Young European Women Who Joined ISIS“ Social Politics, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxad015
Getting Respect in Germany: How Turks Respond to Racism
Funding Agency: German Center for Migration and Integration Research (DeZIM) Racism Monitoring Program (NaDira)
Completed: 2021
Partner: Tunay Altay
Website: here.
Output: (2022) Overcoming stigma: the boundary work of privileged mothers of Turkish background in Berlin’s private schools, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2152720
German translation: Stigmatisierung überwinden: Die Grenzarbeit privilegierter Mütter mit türkeistämmiger Migrationsgeschichte an Berliner Privatschulen
Media, Migrants and Politics: Comparative Study of Media Representations of Immigrants in Australia and Germany
Funding Agency: Berlin University Alliance (BUA)
Completed: 2021
Partner: Karen Farquharson, University of Melbourne
Website: here.
Output: Özvatan, Özgür, Bastian Neuhauser and Gökçe Yurdakul (2023) "The ‘Arab Clans’ Discourse: Narrating Racialization, Kinship, and Crime in the German Media," Social Sciences, 12(2), 104; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020104
Border-Making in Berlin: Sexual Citizenship and Social Boundaries in Street Sex-Work
Funding Agency: None.
Completed: 2020
Partner: Tunay Altay
Output: (2021) Crossing borders: the intersectional marginalisation of Bulgarian Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers in Berlin, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47:9, 1922-1939, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1862646
Body Politics, Bioethics and Gendered Identities
Funding Agency: German-Israeli Science Foundation (GIF)
Completed: 2019
Partner: Shai Lavi, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
Website: here.
Output: Yurdakul, Gökce, Gala Rexer, Shvat Eilat and Nil Mutluer (2019) "Contested Authorities over Life Politics: Religious-Secular Tensions in Abortion Debates in Germany, Turkey, and Israel," Comparative Sociology, 18(5-6), 706-734.
Key publications:
(2022) Overcoming stigma: the boundary work of privileged mothers of Turkish background in Berlin’s private schools, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI:
10.1080/01419870.2022.2152720 (with Tunay Altay)
(2021) "Crossing borders: The intersectional marginalization of Bulgarian Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers in Berlin", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (with Tunay Altay and Anna Korteweg)
(2020) "Boundary Regimes and the Gendered Racialized Production of Muslim Masculinities: Cases from Canada and Germany" Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies (with Anna Korteweg)
(2008) “Citizenship and Immigration: Assimilation, Multiculturalism and the Challenges to the Nation State” Annual Review of Sociology 34: 153-179. (equal authors with Irene Bloemraad and Anna C. Korteweg)
Publications:
transcript Verlag, 2016 Stanford University Press, 2014
(deutsche Übersetzung)
Verlag Sozialwissenschaften, 2010 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
Edited Volumes: Palgrave Macmillan 2006 and 2007