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Mittwoch, den 08.05.2019 um 14 Uhr c.t. Campus Essen, R12 V03 D02 Dr. Ceren Şengül ‘COMPOUND IDENTITIES’ AMONGST SECOND GENERATION IMMIGRANTS Taking the concept of belonging as its central point, Dr. Ceren Şengül discusses her work-in-progress about ways in which feelings of belonging are expressed by taking second-generation immigrants from Turkey as a case study. Drawing on the fieldwork that she started in France and continues in Germany, she first discusses why an intersectional framework is necessary when analysing transnational identities of second-generation immigrants. Anthias’ term “translocational positionality” introduces an intersectional framework by considering not only ethnic but also other social divisions such as gender, class, or generational identities. Yet, this concept also suggests moving away from the idea of ‘given groups’. Hence, the second part of the presentation focuses on questioning this moving away from ‘groupism’. Is it possible to think of second- generation immigrants as having ‘compound identities’, a term Dr. Şengül coined to describe a form of identity made up of intersections of different social divisions forming a group that is different from the sum of its parts? This presentation discusses the methodological challenges of conducting an ethnographical fieldwork of everyday life amongst second-generation immigrants. Dr. Ceren Şengül completed her PhD in Sociology in 2016 at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD thesis, which was recently published as a book by Lexington Books, explored the different manifestations of Kurdishness in Turkey by looking at the roles that state rhetoric, localities, and the language use in everyday life play. She has taught various courses at the University of Edinburgh and Istanbul Okan University. Before joining the KWI as a Fellow of the Academy in Exile in March 2019, she was a Young Visiting Research Fellow of the French Embassy at Centre Nantais de Sociologie, France. ________________________________________ Vortrag auf Englisch Forschungskolloquium Türkeistudien Sommersemester 2019
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Mittwoch, den 08.05.2019 um 14 Uhr c.t. Campus Essen, R12 V03 D02
Dr. Ceren Şengül
‘COMPOUND IDENTITIES’ AMONGST SECOND
GENERATION IMMIGRANTS Taking the concept of belonging as its central point, Dr. Ceren Şengül discusses her work-in-progress about ways in which feelings of belonging are expressed by taking second-generation immigrants from Turkey as a case study. Drawing on the fieldwork that she started in France and continues in Germany, she first discusses why an intersectional framework is necessary when analysing transnational identities of second-generation immigrants. Anthias’ term “translocational positionality” introduces an intersectional framework by considering not only ethnic but also other social divisions such as gender, class, or generational identities. Yet, this concept also suggests moving away from the idea of ‘given groups’. Hence, the second part of the presentation focuses on questioning this moving away from ‘groupism’. Is it possible to think of second-generation immigrants as having ‘compound identities’, a term Dr. Şengül coined to describe a form of identity made up of intersections of different social divisions forming a group that is different from the sum of its parts? This presentation discusses the methodological challenges of conducting an ethnographical fieldwork of everyday life amongst second-generation immigrants. Dr. Ceren Şengül completed her PhD in Sociology in 2016 at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD thesis, which was recently published as a book by Lexington Books, explored the different manifestations of Kurdishness in Turkey by looking at the roles that state rhetoric, localities, and the language use in everyday life play. She has taught various courses at the University of Edinburgh and Istanbul Okan University. Before joining the KWI as a Fellow of the Academy in Exile in March 2019, she was a Young Visiting Research Fellow of the French Embassy at Centre Nantais de Sociologie, France. ________________________________________ Vortrag auf Englisch
Forschungskolloquium Türkeistudien
Sommersemester 2019
