Nermin Abadan-Unat

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Nermin Abadan-Unat (born September 18, 1921 in Vienna ) is a German-Turkish sociologist and women's researcher . The internationally known social scientist is a pioneer in critical research into migration to Germany.

Life

The daughter of a German and a Turk worked at the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University from 1953 to 1989 , where she founded the Chair of Political Sociology . As a visiting professor, she taught at international universities. From 1978 to 1980 she was the “contingent senator” (member of the Senate appointed by the state president) of Turkey.

Abadan-Unat presented the first study on immigration from Turkey to Europe as early as 1963. In the following decades, in addition to her academic work, she often gave critical suggestions to politics and society regarding immigrant issues, for which she was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

The scientist publishes in German, English, French and Turkish and is translated into other languages.

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