CAS SEE

CAS SEE
  • Home
  • About CAS
    • University of Rijeka
    • What is CAS?
    • CAS SEE Booklet
  • People
    • Directors
    • Staff
    • Boards
    • Honorary Fellows
    • Permanent Fellows
    • Visiting Fellows
    • Interns
  • CAS Fellowship Programme
    • CAS SEE Fellowship application
    • CAS Past Calls
    • Current Fellows
    • Former Fellows
  • Events
    • Conferences
    • Lectures
    • Visiting Lectures
      • Colin Bird Symposium
      • Jo Shaw
      • Chiara Cappelletto
      • Peter Eisenman
  • Projects
    • Rijeka in Flux
    • Erasmus+ Project “Rights at Work, Work on Rights”
    • [CuRe] Cultures of Rejection
    • International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs
    • IMPULSE: Gender in a Changing Society
    • Summer school: Equality and Citizenship
      • Equality and Citizenship 2020.
      • Equality and Citizenship 2019.
      • Equality and Citizenship 2018.
      • Equality and Citizenship 2017.
      • Equality and Citizenship 2016.
      • Equality and Citizenship 2015.
      • Equality and Citizenship 2014.
    • Summer School: Philosophy and Architecture
      • Around 1800/2000 – Aesthetics at the Threshold 2019.
      • Notation, Algorithm, Criticism: Towards a Critical Epistemology of Architecture 2018.
      • Between Intellectual and Sensory Reason: Towards an Epistemology of Architecture 2017.
      • Philosophy and Architecture: Social Inequalities and Cities 2016.
  • HEISEE
  • Contact
FacebookYoutube

Seminar with Nilay Kılınç

May 17, 2019SanjaFellowship programmes, LecturesCAS SEE, Center for Advanced Studies – South East Europe, Culture of Rejection, Diaspora, Digital Social Networks, Europe, Fellows, Fellowship, Highly Skilled Migrants, Nilay Kilinc, Rijeka, Seminar, Turkey, University of Rijeka

Highly-Skilled Turkish Migrants’ Search for Alternative Diaspora Spaces in Europe: How They Build (Digital) Social Networks Beyond the ‘Culture of Rejection’

“This research explores Europe-based highly-skilled Turkish migrants’ everyday-life experiences in; a) work places, b) wider social community and, c) wider Turkish diaspora community. The project focuses on the narratives of individual identity vis-à-vis the general group identity (i.e. Turkish diaspora in their respective European host society and the host society) and how they build/maintain alternative social networks based on such perceptions, social statuses and professions. The research focuses on the highly-skilled Turkish community in Germany, Sweden and Netherlands, wherein Turkish diasporas are dominant. The study explores the production of alternative diaspora spaces in migrants’ social environments and digital spheres through mixed methods (i.e. life-story interviews, surveys, digital ethnography). The premise is, highly-skilled migrants experience cultural rejection from the Turkish diaspora groups, hence look for ways to culturally integrate themselves to the wider European society. Theoretically, the aim is to establish ‘alternative diasporas’ as a concept wherein individuals have more contested feelings/attachments towards their native communities and ‘given’ identities whilst they pursue the interest of connecting with others who share similar interests, lifestyles and ethics. The overall objective is to explore how these highly-skilled migrants blur/sharpen the boundaries of such in/out-group status with the native diaspora community and the host society.”

Nilay Kılınç is currently a research fellow at UNIRI CAS SEE in Rijeka. She obtained her PhD from University of Surrey and her MA in European Studies from Lund University. Her PhD thesis explored the Turkish-German return migrants’ quest for ‘search for self’ in the Mediterranean tourism hub of Turkey, Antalya. She recently completed a 10-month postdoc research fellowship at New Europe College, Bucharest wherein she focused on the deportation-wellbeing nexus for the second-generation Turkish migrants from Germany who had to force return to Turkey due to their youth crimes, and their self-healing and social integration practices.

The seminar was held on May 15, 2019 at the University of Rijeka Campus, Sveučilišni odjeli building (Ul. Radmile Matejčić 2, 51000 Rijeka).


Newsletter

Visiting Lectures

April 2021
M T W T F S S
« Mar    
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
2627282930