Naika Foroutan

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Naika Foroutan (2014)

Naika Foroutan (born December 24, 1971 in Boppard ) is a German political and social scientist .

Life

Foroutan is the daughter of a German mother and an Iranian father. She is the sister of actress Melika Foroutan . Her father Bahman Foroutan is a soccer coach. Among other things, he was the coach of various Berlin amateur clubs from 2010 to 2014. Naika Foroutan lived in Tehran for 11 years and left Iran with her family in 1983. Foroutan studied political science , Romance studies and Islamic studies at the University of Cologne . In the years 2000 to 2004 she did her doctorate at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen under Bassam Tibi in the subject area "Inter-civilizational cultural dialogues between the West and the Islamic world", as a result of which she worked there as a lecturer in the department of international relations . Between 2006 and 2009 Foroutan taught at the Department of Politics of the Middle East at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Free University of Berlin , until she moved to the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2009. From 2008 to 2013, together with her colleague Isabel Schäfer, she led the research project “Hybrid European-Muslim Identity Models (HEYMAT)”. The HEYMAT project was extended to 2015 by the Volkswagen Foundation in 2013 . Since the extension, Naika Foroutan has managed the HEYMAT project independently. The HEYMAT project was completed at the end of June 2015.

Naika Foroutan, Humboldt University Berlin (2011)

Foroutan also organized the “Young Islam Conference - Berlin 2011” for the Humboldt University in Berlin in cooperation with the Mercator Foundation . In 2012 another “Young Islam Conference” took place under her leadership. During the conference it was announced that the “Young Islam Conference” and a corresponding research project “Young Islam-related Issues in Germany” (JUNITED) under Foroutan's leadership will be funded by Stiftung Mercator with two million euros up to 2016. Since 2012 she has been co-head of the research project “Concepts for the Development of Intelligence, Security and Prevention” (CODISP), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .

From April 2014 to May 2018 Foroutan was Deputy Director of the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research and heads the work area “Integration Research and Social Policy”. In June 2015 she was appointed W2 Professor for “Integration Research and Social Policy” by the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since May 2018 she has been director of the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research. She has been the head of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) since 2017.

Naika Foroutan is married and has three children.

Focus and positions

Between 2000 and 2007 Naika Foroutan mainly worked on the topic of intercivilizational cultural dialogue. Since 2008 her focus has been on migration research and she is concerned with the identity formation processes of Muslims and people with a Muslim migration background in Germany. With her Junited research group, she collects representative data on the total population (number of cases 8100 with survey experiments, nationwide or state-specific) and addresses the dynamics of recognition and exclusion as well as recurring narratives, elements of discourse and patterns of interpretation. A central aim of her work is a theory of the post-migrant. The previous content-related work in the thematic fields of hybridity and cultural, ethnic, religious and national narratives (Heymat and Junited) resulted in a new field, the post-migrant society .

In a study in 2019, Foroutan compared the discrimination experiences of Muslim migrants and East Germans . The journalist Jana Hensel praised Foroutan's study in the time . The conservative Spiegel columnist Jan Fleischhauer described the approach of the study as identity politics , which can be extended to any other alleged victim groups. The Übermedien portal criticized the study as unbalanced because it did not take into account the migration experiences of people of non-German origin in East Germany. The article also indicated that Foroutan cited Hensel's publications. The two performed together repeatedly and are working on a joint book at Aufbau-Verlag .

Controversy on the Sarrazin Debate

In September and October 2010 Naika Foroutan formulated her objections to the book Germany Abolishes Itself by Thilo Sarrazin on television, radio and in newspapers.

After appearing on a talk show on the subject, Foroutan received various “hate mails”, and on the Politically Incorrect website she was ridiculed as “Iranian Barbie dolls”. In video clips that were cut together, she was accused of inconsistent relative and absolute percentages as well as different figures on the high school graduation rates of German-Turks , which emerged from the fact that Naika Foroutan had once also added technical diploma degrees without further explanation . In this context, the sociologist and publicist Gunnar Heinsohn accused her of highlighting individual statistical data and not mentioning others, partially confirming her figures on the educational advancement of Turkish migrants. Specifically, Heinsohn criticized a "misappropriation" of the increased social welfare rate among people of Turkish origin in Germany :

“The proportion of incoming Turks on social assistance was less than one percent at the beginning of immigration. It couldn't be otherwise, because they were recruited for vacancies. In 2008, however, the share of social benefit recipients among people of Turkish origin in Berlin was just under fifty percent, according to information from the German Institute for Economic Research . That fifty-fold increase is an increase of five thousand percent. Only because it suppresses this tremendous growth, Foroutan can then triumphantly follow up: 'Sarrazin's Germany does not exist.' "

In the FAZ article from September 16, 2010, Foroutan replied to Heinsohn's allegations:

“To speak of embezzlement and an increase of 5000 percent in the social welfare quota for Turks is demagogic . Especially when Gunnar Heinsohn juxtaposes federal statistics from the 1960s on full employment with country statistics after structural change, reunification and the economic crisis. All of this has made it difficult for people of Turkish descent to access the labor market. The accompanying reference to the 'unproductivity' of this group, its 'costs' for the German state and its use of free education, which nevertheless does not lead to the same high level of intelligence, not only testifies to a degrading utilitarianism . He also disguises the fact that the greatest measurable economic damage that has hit Germany since the Second World War does not come from the group of 'Muslims' - but from the financial sector, which, strangely enough, no one has denied intelligence. "

On the homepage of her research project Heymat , Foroutan published the figures she used under the title Dossier on the Sarrazin Debate 2010 . Under the title Sarrazin's theses on the test stand, she published an “empirical alternative to Thilo Sarrazin's theses on Muslims in Germany” in the form of a brochure.

The FAZ journalist Jürgen Kaube commented that the “Berlin Brochure” definitely met “the amateurish approach to research at Sarrazin”. Regarding the counter-calculation, he criticized that the researchers followed a “misunderstood flurry of numbers” just like Sarrazin, “sometimes loyal, sometimes strategic, just going in the opposite direction”. The “relationship of the data salad to social reality” would “not be reflected for a second”. Kaube came to the conclusion that one “did not get the impression that the Sarrazin reviewers knew much more about sociology than Sarrazin himself”.

Awards

Memberships

  • Member of the scientific advisory board for the “Center for Educational Integration. Diversity and Democracy in Migration Societies ”at the University of Hildesheim
  • Member of the board of the Avicenna-Studienwerk
  • Member of the Association of German Scientists (VDW)
  • Member of the board of trustees of “ Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedenszeichen e. V. "
  • Member of the advisory board of "Schools without Racism"
  • Member of the Ready of the project "ZuRecht - The Police in the Open Society"

Publications

Books

  • 2019: The Post-Migrant Society: A Pledge of Plural Democracy. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • 2018: Post-migrant perspectives: systems of order, representations, criticism. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. With Juliane Karakayali & Riem Spielhaus.
  • 2018: The Phantom »Race«. On the history and influence of racism. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag. With: Christian Geulen, Susanne Illmer, Klaus Vogel and Susanne Wernsing.
  • 2010: Between confrontation and dialogue. Islam as a political entity . Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. With: Marwan Abou-Taam & Jost Esser.
  • 2004: Cultural dialogues between the West and the Islamic world. A strategy to regulate civilization conflicts . Göttingen: German University Publishing House. ISBN 3-8244-4604-9 , excerpts from Google

Book contributions

  • 2018: The Post-Migrant Perspective: Negotiation Processes in Plural Societies. In: Marc Hill and Erol Yildiz (eds.): Post-migrant visions: experiences - ideas - reflections. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 15-27
  • 2017: Ambivalent Germany. How to deal with migration, Muslims and democracy . In: Jünemann / Annette, Fromm / Nicolas and Scherer / Nikolas (eds.): Fortress Europe? Challenges and Failures of Migration and Asylum Policies. Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag, pp. 123-138
  • 2016: Post-migrant societies . In: Brinkmann, Heinz Ulrich / Sauer, Martina (ed.): Immigration Society Germany. Pp. 227-255.
  • 2016: Beyond the Migrant - Living in a Post-Migrant Society . In: Carius / Alexander, Welzer / Harald and Wilkens / André (eds.): The open society and its friends. Frankfurt: Fischer. Pp. 55-63
  • 2013: Hybrid Identities - Normalization, Conflict Factor and Resource in Post-Migrant Societies . In: Brinkmann, Heinz-Ulrich / Uslucan, Haci-Halil (eds.): Being and Belonging - Integration in Germany. Wiesbaden. Pp. 85-102.
  • 2011: Common identity in plural Germany . In: Sezgin, Hilal (ed.): Manifesto of the Many. Berlin. Pp. 140-143.

Professional articles & studies

Web links

Commons : Naika Foroutan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Naika Foroutan. In: heymat.hu-berlin.de. Archived from the original on March 19, 2011 ; accessed on February 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 1st Federal Conference on Interkultur 2006 in Stuttgart. List of speakers. In: bundesfachkongress-interkultur.de. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .
  3. ^ A b Dorothea Jung: Danger to Society - The Islamophobia in Germany is increasing In: DLF Background , October 7, 2010.
  4. ↑ Bahman Foroutan - Treinerprofil , transfermarkt.de, accessed on May 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ Naika Foroutan: Cultural dialogues between the West and the Islamic world: a strategy for regulating civilizational conflicts , foreword. DUV, 2004, ISBN 3-8244-4604-9 books.google.de ( limited preview in Google book search)
  6. ↑ a b Naika Foroutan - Heymat. In: heymat.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Isabel Schäfer - Heymat. In: heymat.hu-berlin.de. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .
  8. ↑ a b heymat.hu-berlin.de
  9. ↑ http://www.bim.hu-berlin.de/de/projekte/2008/04/01/2015/06/01/hybride-europaeisch-muslimische-identitaetsmodelle-heymat/
  10. ↑ Young Islam Conference - Heymat. In: heymat.hu-berlin.de. October 15, 2013, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Two million euros for the Young Islam Conference. In: hu-berlin.de. April 19, 2012, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM): Prof. Dr. Naika Foroutan In: People .
  13. ↑ BIM: Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research - Prof. Dr. Naika Foroutan. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  14. ↑ https://www.dezim-institut.de/das-dezim-institut/
  15. ↑ Alem Grabovac: The game is played on the pitch. The daily newspaper , April 9, 2011.
  16. ↑ Current research projects - JUNITED. In: junited.hu-berlin.de. September 30, 2013, archived from the original on February 17, 2015 ; accessed on February 17, 2015 .
  17. ↑ - ( Memento from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ^ Foroutan, Naika; Kalter, Frank; Canan, Coşkun; Simon, Mara (2019): East-Migrant Analogies I. Competition for Recognition. With the collaboration of Daniel Kubiak and Sabrina Zajak. Berlin: DeZIM Institute, PDF
  19. ^ Daniel Schulz: Professor on Identities: "East Germans are also migrants" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 13, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 20, 2020]).
  20. ↑ Jana Hensel: Welcome to the club. In: Zeit Online. May 20, 2018, accessed July 21, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Jan Fleischhauer: Unter Linken: I, simply discriminated. In: Spiegel Online. April 4, 2019, accessed July 21, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Ossis disadvantaged like migrants? A half-baked study with loud fans. In: Übermedien. April 9, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  23. ↑ The Society of Others. Construction Verlag, accessed on July 21, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Late Night TV “MAYBRIT ILLNER”; First Özil and Boateng. And then came Sarrazin . Die Welt, September 3, 2010.
  25. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/zu-gaenzlich-anderen-lösungen-gekommen.954.de.html?dram:article_id=145930
  26. ↑  Naika Foroutan: Sarrazin Debate: Who are we? In: zeit.de . September 23, 2010, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  27. ↑ The Anti-Sarrazin Study. In: zeit.de/. January 7, 2011, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  28. ↑ Video: Dr. Naika Foroutan juggles numbers on YouTube , September 3, 2009
  29. ^ Gunnar Heinsohn: The embezzled five thousand percent. In: FAZ.net . September 8, 2010, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  30. ↑ Naika Foroutan: The calculations are demagogic. In: FAZ.net . September 16, 2010, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  31. ↑ Dossier on the Sarrazin debate 2010. In: heymat.hu-berlin.de. May 18, 2011, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  32. ↑ Sarrazin's theses put to the test - an empirical alternative to Thilo Sarrazin's theses on Muslims in Germany . Humboldt University of Berlin, December 2010
  33. ↑ Jürgen Kaube: Painting by Numbers. In: FAZ.net . January 7, 2011, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  34. ↑ "100 women of tomorrow" . AcademiaNet, November 15, 2011
  35. ↑ Dr. Naika Foroutan receives the Berlin Integration Prize 2011 . Humboldt University, press release, December 8, 2011.
  36. ↑ Dr. Naika Foroutan receives the Fritz Behrens Foundation's 2012 Science Prize. In: hu-berlin.de. October 16, 2012, accessed February 17, 2015 .
  37. ↑ Homepage of IDIZEM. In: idizem.de. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .
  38. ↑ University of Vechta from September 2, 2016: Höffmann Science Prize 2016 goes to Berlin researcher Naika Foroutan ( Memento from September 11, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Foroutan, Naika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Boppard