Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Diversity and Social Conflict

Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul

Department of Diversity and Social Conflict
Yurdakul CV August 2023 | Short Bio 2023.pdf
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Name
Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul
Status
professor
Email
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

ORCID ID 0000-0002-2604-0743

Research Gate  

Gökce Yurdakul is Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Director of the Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research (BIM). Previously, she was the Director of the Department of Social Sciences at her university from 2019-21. Her areas of interest are gender, immigration, citizenship, specifically issues of Muslim women in Western Europe. Her research has been funded by national and international grants, including the Social Science Research Council Canada, German Center for Migration Research (DeZIM) and GIF (German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research). She was a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at the Harvard University in 2019, where she was affiliated with the Comparative Inequalities and Inclusion Research Cluster. 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. Yurdakul is an associate editor for the leading feminist journal, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society.



 

Current projects (as of 2024):

 

Climate Change, Gender & Immigration

Funding Agency: Erasmus+ Key Action 171 / DAAD

Duration: 01.08.2023 - 31.07.2026

Partner: HU-Agrarökonomie, University of the South Pacific

Website: 

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: Journal article in preparation

 

Recently Completed Research Projects:

 

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: Gökçe Yurdakul & Tunay Altay (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: Altay, Tunay, Gökçe Yurdakul & Anna C. Korteweg (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:

 

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Edited Volumes: Palgrave Macmillan 2006 and 2007