Working Lives Research Institute: Staff: Umut Erel

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.

^ top

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

2000: ‘Grenzüberschreitungen und kulturelle Mischformen als antirassistischer Widerstand?’ (‘Hybridity as antiracist resistance?’) in Gelbin, C.; Konuk, K.; Piesche, P. (eds.) ‘AufBrüche. Kulturelle Produktionen von Migrantinnen, schwarzen und jüdischen Frauen in Deutschland.’ Ulrike Harms Verlag.
2003: Re-conceptualising Motherhood, the experiences of some women of Turkish background in Germany. in: Bryceson, Deborah Fahy and Vuorola, Ulla (eds.): The Transnational Family: Global European Networks and New Frontiers. Oxford: Berg.
2003 (with Eleonore Kofman): Professional Female Immigration in Post-war Europe: counteracting an historical amnesia. In: Ohliger, R.; Schönwalder, K. and Triadafilopoulos, T. (eds.):European Encounters, 1945-2000: Migrants, Migration and European Societies since 1945. Aldershott: Ashgate.
2003: Citizenship Practices and Skilled Migrant Women. in: Morokvasic, Mirjana; Erel, Umut; Shinozaki, Kyoko: On the Move! Gender and Migration: Crossing borders and shifting boundaries. Opladen: Leske & Budrich.
2003: Migration, Geschlecht, Ethnizität: (De-) Konstruktionen von Identitätspolitik und Gemeinschaft. (Migration, Gender, Ethnicity: The Politics of Identity and Community (De-)constructed.) In: Eder, Angelika (ed.): ‚Wir sind auch da!’ Über das Leben von und mit Migranten in europäischen Grossstädten. Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz Verlag.
2004: Migrantinnen zwischen Anerkennung und Abqualifikation. (Migrant Women between Recognition and De-skilling). In: Gutierrez-Rodriguez, Encarnacion: Subjektivität, Gouvernementalität und Arbeit.
2004: Die Kraft der Schwachen? Soziales Kapital und Migration. in: Mario Castro del Mar et al (eds.): Abqualifiziert- Migrantinnen und Arbeit.
2004: Paradigmen Kultureller Differenz und Hybriditaet. in: Martin Sökefeld (ed.): Jenseits des Paradigmas kultureller Differenz
2004: Migration und Staatsbürgerschaft. In: B. Ross: Migration, Geschlecht und Staatsbuergerschaft.
2006: with Jinthana Haritaworn, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Christian Klesse: Intersektionalität oder Simultaneität?! – Zur Verschränkung und Gleichzeitigkeit mehrfacher Machtverhältnisse in: Hartmann, Jutta / Klesse, Christian / Wagenknecht, Peter / Fritzsche, Bettina / Hackmann, Kristina (eds.) Eine Einführung Heteronormativität. Empirische Studien zu Heterosexualität als gesellschaftlichem Machtverhältnis. Vs Verlag
2006 Transnationale Migration, Intime Beziehungen und BürgerInnenrechte. In: Hartmann, Jutta / Klesse, Christian / Wagenknecht, Peter / Fritzsche, Bettina / Hackmann, Kristina (eds.) Eine Einführung Heteronormativität. Empirische Studien zu Heterosexualität als gesellschaftlichem Machtverhältnis. Vs Verlag

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

2005: with France Tomlinson: Women refugees - from volunteers to employees: a research project on paid and unpaid work in the voluntary sector and volunteering as a pathway into employment http://www.workinglives.org/docs/Refugee%20Women%20Report%2031-3-05.pdf

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.