Ahmet Celikten

Migration Research

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

Doctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Center  SFB 1604 “Production of Migration” in project  A3 »You are Guest Worker Children!« Science, School and the Production of Figures of Migration. 

Profile

After completing his Bachelor's degree in Political Science in Ankara, Turkey, Ahmet Celikten earned a Master's degree in European Studies at Sabanci University in Istanbul. In 2022, he completed a second Master’s degree in Sociology - European Societies program at Freie Universität Berlin. Since April 2024, he has been working as a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück. He is pursuing his PhD with the dissertation titled “Othering through Academic Discourse? The (Re)Production of Migrantized Figures in Educational Sciences – The Case of Turkey-Related Migration in Germany.”

Vita
  • Since April 2024: Doctoral researcher in project A3 of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1604 “Production of Migration”, IMIS, University of Osnabrück
  • 2022-2024: Project fellow and scholarship holder at Profund Innovation Institute at Free University Berlin in the project “Researchvlog” (funded by the European Social Fund)
  • 2019-2021: Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Free University Berlin
  • 2018: Intern, EU/Europe research group at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Berlin
  • 2016-2017: Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

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.