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 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: (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