Gülşen Aktaş

Gülşen Aktaş (* 1957 in Eastern Anatolia ) is a Turkish teacher and political scientist who advocates the concerns of migrant women in Germany .

Life

Gülşen Aktaş grew up in Turkey with relatives and in homes. Her father died early, the mother emigrated to Germany as a guest worker without her children and worked in a factory to look after her four daughters in Turkey. Aktaş graduated from high school in Diyarbakir Province and became a primary school teacher. At the age of 21 she followed her mother to Germany. She studied political science in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main , then worked, among other things, in one of Berlin 's first women's shelters and was involved in various immigrant and women's projects. At the beginning of the 1990s she reported in a highly regarded article about experiences of racism among migrant women in German women's shelters. As a result, greater consideration was given to specific situations of migrant women; in some women's shelters, quota regulations were introduced to increase the proportion of women migrants among the employees. Aktaş founded a women's network for Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, Bosnian and Arab women and girls and advised students and parents of different origins at a primary school in Berlin-Schöneberg . Since 2007 she has been running the senior citizen leisure center Huzur in Berlin and offers cultural tours in Berlin for older migrants.

Awards

• 1. Cosmopolitanism of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district 2009
• Order of Merit of the State of Berlin , 2011

Works

• Distant links: racism, anti-Semitism, class oppression . Orlanda Frauenverlag, 1993

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Friebertshäuser: Image and text: Methods and methodologies of visual social research in educational science . Budrich, 2007, p. 17
2. ↑ Discover your second home . Deutschlandradio Kultur, August 6, 2013
3. ↑ Wowereit awards Berlin state medals . Press release, Berlin, September 30, 2011