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Last updated: 08/04/08

Dr Umut Erel

Position (Former Staff Member)

Research Fellow

Qualifications

  • BA Anthropology
  • MA Gender and Ethnic Studies
  • PhD Cultural Studies

Background/Career

Currently Umut is a researcher on a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded project on Immigration and Social Cohesion. She has previously worked on a project on ‘Racial and ethnic minorities, immigration and the role of trade unions in combating discrimination and xenophobia, in encouraging participation and in securing social inclusion and citizenship’ and been project manager of an LDA/ ESF funded research project on ‘From Volunteers to Employees - Refugee Women in the Voluntary Sector Labour Market’.
She has researched on migrant domestic workers (Münster University, Germany and International Women’s University 2000, Hannover). Her PhD thesis ‘Agency and Subjectivity in the Life Stories of Migrant Women from Turkey in Britain and Germany’ looked at the experiences of education, mothering, work and social and political activism of skilled and highly educated migrant women through auto/ biographical methods.

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Research interests and expertise

Umut’s research interests are on gender, ethnicity, sexuality and class. She has an interest in issues of migration and citizenship as well as cultural theory.

Publications

Book Chapters

Books

  • 2003: Co-editor with Morokvasic, Mirjana and Shinozaki, Kyoko: On the Move! Gender and Migration: Crossing borders and shifting boundaries. Opladen: Leske & Budrich.

Articles

  • 1998: ‘Nationalisierung und Kultur’ in Marburg Virus, no. 1, 1998

Reports

Book Reviews

  • 1999: Book review on ‘Social Citizenship for whom? Young Turks in Germany and Mexican Americans in the United States’ Thomas Faist 1995, in Political Geography no 18 (1999), pp.754-756.

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