Yaşar Aydın

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Yaşar Aydın (born May 22, 1971 in Artvin , Turkey ) is a Hamburg social scientist.

life and career

Yaşar Aydın came to Germany at the age of four and has lived almost continuously in Hamburg ever since. Yadın studied sociology and economics in Hamburg (2001) and Lancaster (2002). Yaşar Aydın received a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation during his studies and doctoral studies and is a member of the Hamburg TurkeyEurope Center .

After completing his studies, he was a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research and a lecturer at the University of Hamburg . In 2009 he received his doctorate on the subject of "Topoi of the foreign: On the analysis and criticism of a social construction" in Hamburg. From August 2009 to March 2012 he worked as a research assistant at the Hamburg World Economic Institute on a project on the subject of "Intentions to emigrate and the emigration of highly qualified people of Turkish origin from Germany to Turkey". In 2015 he worked as a lecturer at the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) . Most recently, he conducted research on Turkish foreign policy at the SWP Foundation for Science and Politics and is currently teaching at the Evangelical College for Social Work and Diakonia.

Research priorities

His research interests include:

  • Turkey research: domestic and foreign policy, modernization, nationalism, parties
  • Migration Research and Immigration Policy
  • Exclusion problem
  • Research on nationalism: ethnic conflicts, problems of foreignness, collective identity
  • Theories of modernity / modernization
  • Social Philosophy / Social Philosophy and Political Theory

Publications

Aydin writes articles on current and fundamental topics in his field for Turkish and German newspapers.

Books

  • “Transnational” instead of “not integrated”: emigration of highly qualified people of Turkish origin from Germany . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz & Munich, 2013.
  • with Holger Adam: Pop Culture Discourse: On the relationship between society, the cultural industry and science . Ventil Verlag, Mainz, 2010
  • Topoi of tourism: To analyze and critique of a social construction . University Press Konstanz, 2009.

Articles in collective works

  • "Migration movements of (highly qualified) people between Germany and Turkey", to be published in: Olaf Leiße (ed.), Turkey in Transition: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dynamics of an Up-and-Coming Country. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, probably 2013.
  • “Going Istanbul - Going Home? Scientists of Turkish origin between 'stools'? ”In: Erol Esen / Burak Gümüş (eds.), Germany and Turkey: Current Aspects of German-Turkish Scientific Cooperation. Ankara: Siyasal Kitabevi, 151-168.
  • “Türkiye ile Almanya Arasındaki Göç Hareketleri ve Değişim: Veriler ve gözlemler ışığında iki ülke arasındaki göç hareketlerine ilişkin bir değerlendirme denemesi”, in: Ülkü Söğluzbir Fındıkç. Zeynep Güler (ed.), Almanya'ya Emek Göçü: Bir Bavul, Umut ve Hayalleriyle Çıktılar Yola. İstanbul: Yazılama Yayınevi, 2012, 29–55.
  • "On the importance of social changes and transnational orientations in mobility decisions: Migration of highly qualified people of Turkish origin from Germany to Istanbul", in: Barbara Pusch (ed.), Transnational Migration using the example of Germany and Turkey. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2012, 147–169.
  • "Emigration of Highly Qualified Turks: A Critical Review of the Societal Discourses and Social Scientific Research", in: Seçil Elitok / Thomas Straubhaar (eds.), Turkey, Migration and the EU: Potentials, Challenges and Opportunities, Hamburg University Press, 2012 .
  • “On the relationship between society, popular culture and science in global capitalism”, in: Yasar Aydin, Holger Adam et al. (Ed.), Pop Kultur Discourse: On the relationship between society, culture industry and science, Mainz: Ventil Verlag, 2010, 9-15 (7).
  • “National Myths in Turkish Literature: A Political-Sociological Approach to the Novel» Şu Çılgın Türkler «”, in: Yasar Aydin / Holger Adam u. a. (Ed.), Pop Kultur Discourse: On the relationship between society, the culture industry and science, Mainz: Ventil Verlag, 2010, 52-79 (28).
  • "Current Sociology of Strangerhood and Implications for Immigration Policies", in: Dennis Harrison, György Szell and Reynald Bourque (eds.), Social Innovation, the Social Economy and World Economic Development. Democracy and Labor Rights in an Era of Globalization, Frankfurt / Main et al .: Peter Lang Verlag, 2009, 369-378 (10).
  • “On the role of neoliberalism in the east German transformation process”, in: Rainer Volkmann / Siegfried Timpf (eds.), 10 years of accession of the GDR to the FRG: From the failed system alternative to exemplary modernization? Vol. 2, Socio-Economic Texts of the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics, No. 89, October 2001.
  • "The erosion of the belief in progress and the SED's hegemony crisis: A discourse-theoretical analysis of the collapse of the GDR", in: Rainer Volkmann / Siegfried Timpf (ed.), 10 years of the GDR's accession to the FRG: From the failed system alternative to the model Modernization? Vol. 2, Socio-Economic Texts of the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics, No. 89, October 2001.

Articles in scientific journals

  • The new Turkish diaspora policy: its goals, its limits and its challenges for associations of Turkish origin and decision-makers in Germany, SWP Studies 2014 / S 14, September 2014.
  • "Migration of Highly Qualified German Citizens with Turkish Background from Germany to Turkey: Socio-Political Factors and Individual Viewpoints", International Journal of Business and Globalization, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2012, pp. 471-490 (20).
  • “Returnees or transmigrants? First results of an empirical analysis of the living environment of the German-Turks in Istanbul ", in: Turkish-German Studies Yearbook 2011: 50 Years of Turkish Labor Migration in Germany (edited by Seyda Ozil, Michael Hoffmann, Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel), 59-90 ( 32).
  • “Emigration of highly qualified German citizens of Turkish origin” (together with Barbara Pusch), homepage of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2011, ( online ).
  • “The Problem of Strangerhood” in European History: Sociological Observations on Social Mechanisms of “Strangerhood” Attributions ”, in: Trans-Humanities, 2010 Vol. 2/1, 153-69 (17).
  • “The discourse about the emigration of highly qualified Turkish origin to Turkey”, HWWI Policy Paper, 3-9, Hamburg, May 2010, ISSN  1862-4960 , ( online ).
  • "National Discourses between Universalization and Ethnicalization in Contemporary Turkey", in: Orient: German Journal for Politics, Economy and Culture of the Orient, Vol. 50, III / 2009, 48-62 (15).
  • "Complexity and Emancipation - the Challenge of System Theory", in: Historical Materialism, Volume 16, Number 3, 2008, 209-218 (10).
  • “» Öteki «nin Aşkınlığı ve Karşılıklılık İlkesi Geriliminde» Kültürlerarası «Diyalog: Levinas ve Ricoeur Üzerine Birkaç Not” (dt., Cultural dialogue in the field of tension between the transcendence of the other and the principle of reciprocity) in: Notes on the principle of reciprocity , 230/231 (June / July 2008), 133-135 (3).
  • “Polarized diachrony and the ability to act - Notes on Karl Polanyi's theoretical architecture and its current citation style” (28 pages), in: ZÖSS Discussion Paper, No. 15 / April 2008, ( online ).
  • “Removing and embedding the economic in Karl Polanyi”, in: Das Argument 258, Heft 6, 2004, 857-864 (8).

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personal data
SURNAME Aydın, Yaşar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Artvin , Turkey