dr. E. Karacan (Elifcan)

I am an Assistant Professor of Public Governance and Transformation. My research specializes in inequality, mobility, globalization, and migration. I am the author of Remembering the 1980 Turkish Military Coup d'état: Memory, Violence, and Trauma (Springer VS, 2016), as well as several articles, book chapters, and conference papers that focus on various mobility practices (including cross-border mobility, geographical arbitrage, tactical mobility, and North-South mobility), migration, and the sociology of space.

My recent project, titled "Cross-border Mobility: Socio-Economic and Spatial Dynamics of Short-Distance Transboundary Migration in Germany" (March 2021-October 2024), is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

I have held various positions and visiting fellowships, including:

• Visiting Fellow, Sociology Department, University of Cambridge, UK.
• Visiting Fellow, Sociology of Migration Law, Radboud University, NL.
• Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, TU Berlin, Germany.
• Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

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My research spans across several different areas involving mobility and socio-economic  inequality. I am particularly interested in socio-economic dynamics of mobility practices across borders and policies that regulate such mobility practices. I am also interested in border asymmetries which create/form pull and push factors and the agency, particularly local, regional and territorial networks and cooperation.   

For more information on recent publications and research projects, please visit my page on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elifcan-Karacan

Other contributions

Karacan, E. (2024) Impacts of Spatial Division of Labour and Multi-Governance on Quality of Space:  Comparison of Germany's Border Regions. Quaderni di Sociologia, N: 93, 3/2023.

Karacan, E., (2023) Exploring Cross-Border Labor Commuting as a Practice of Tactical Mobility. Border and Regional Studies, 11, 61–88. https://doi.org/10.25167/brs5112.

Kosnick K., Karacan E., Kahveci C. (2021) Policy Dimensions of Retirement Migration from Germany to the Turkish Riviera: Comparing German and German-Turkish Older Migrants, in Repetti M., Calasanti T., Phillipson C. (Eds.) Ageing and Migration in a Global Context: Challenges for Welfare States. Springer: Wiesbaden. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71442-0_9

Karacan, Elifcan (2020) Coping strategies of vulnerability in retirement: German retirees’ relocation to low-cost destinations and intergenerational support practices at distance. Journal of Intergeneratoinal Relations 18:3, 339-357. DOI: 10.1080/15350770.2020.1787048

Karacan, Elifcan (together with Kosnick Kira and Kahveci Cagri) (2020) Tactical Mobility: Navigating Mobile Ageing and Transnational Retirement between Turkey and Germany. In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 46:15, 3157-3173. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1724532

Karacan, Elifcan (2019) An Analysis of Biographies in Collective Memory Research: The Method of Socio-Historical Analysis. In Qualitative Sociology Review (15) 3. DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.15.3.05

Karacan, Elifcan (2019) “In Search of Lost Symbolic Capital: Turkish Political Exiles in Germany.” In Symbolische Ordnung und Flüchtlingsbewegungen in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft, edited by Arslan, Emre and Kemal Bozay, 217-230. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Karacan, Elifcan (2016) Remembering the 1980 Turkish Military Coup d'Etat; Memory, Violence, and Trauma. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Karacan, Elifcan (2010) Tradition vs Integration: The Case of Turkish Migrant Women in Germany' in Temperanter International Quarterly Journal, N.I- 2/3, pp. 111-119.

Courses I teach:

• Organization Theory (Premaster)
• Public governance and policy networks (Master PA)
• Digital Governance in a Globalised World (Bachelor)
• Governance and Technology Beyond Nation States (Master)
• Global City Networks - (Bachelor)

I supervise bachelor and master thesis on topics:

• Migration, mobility, policy making
• Digitalization and globalization
• Inequality and poverty

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elifcan-Karacan

08.2021 - present "Cross-Border Mobility: Socio-Economic and Spatial Dynamics of Short-Distance Transboundary Migration in Germany." Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Principal Researcher.

06.2017-04.2020 "Mobile Ageing: Transnational Circular Migration and Care-Networks of Retirees between Turkey and Germany." Funded by the DFG. Institute of Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Research Associate.

04.2015-01.2017 "Socio-political and historical construction of the ‚Alamanci’ Label." Research Grant of the Turkish Science and Technology Institute, conducted at the Inter-cultural Education Department, Bremen University. Principal Researcher.

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