Profil

Profile

Research assistant/doctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Center 1604 "Production of Migration" in project A3 ""You are guest worker children!" Science, school and the production of figures of migration".

After completing his Bachelor's degree in Political Science in Ankara, Turkey, Ahmet Celikten completed a Master's degree in European Studies at Sabanci University in Istanbul. In 2022, he completed his second Master's degree in Sociology - European Societies at Freie Universität Berlin. Since April 2024, he has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at Osnabrück University and is doing his doctorate with the title "Othering through Academic Discourse? The (Re)Production of Migrantized Figures in Educational Sciences - The Case of Turkey-Related Migration in Germany".

Main research: reflexive migration research, discourse analysis, figures of migration, political attitudes and elections, EU-Turkey, democracy, text-as-data, mixed methods

Vita

Since April 2024: Research assistant/doctoral researcher in project A3 of the CRC 1604 "Production of Migration", IMIS, Osnabrück University

2022-2024: Project fellow at Profund Innovation Institute at Freie Universität Berlin in the project "Researchvlog" (funded by the European Social Fund)

2019-2021: Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Free University of Berlin

2018: Intern, EU/Europe research group at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Berlin

2016-2017: Student Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FASS), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

Publications

Celikten, A. (2022). [Review of the book Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East, by R. A. Del Sarto]. Orient, 3(22), pp. 54-55.

Celikten, A. (2022). [Review of the book Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco: In Search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes, by L. Van Praag et al.] Orient, 4(22), pp. 51-52.