dr. E. Karacan (Elifcan)

I'm Assistant Professor for Public Governance and Transformation. My research specialises in cross-border mobility, multi-governance, intra-European mobility and inequality, policy making and implementation in European, national and local level, regional cooperation, and spatial transformation. I am the author of Remembering the 1980 Turkish Military Coup d'état: Memory, Violence, and Trauma. (Springer VS, 2016), and of articles, book chapters and conference papers focusing on various mobility practices (geographical arbitrage, tactical mobility, North-South mobility) and migration.

My recent project, entitled "Cross-border Mobility: Socio-Economic and Spatial Dynamics of Short-Distance Transboundary Migration in Germany" is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). This project aims at understanding the intra-European labour mobility in both micro-level (commuters' motivations and experiences) as well as in macro-level (how the legal and economic structures impact commuters practices, the role of regional networks and cooperation, issues regarding multi-governance and multi-spatiality).

Cross-border mobility project webpage: www.cross-border-mobility.de

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Public Administration (PA)

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.

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.

I will be teaching and supervising:

Organization Theory (Premaster)
Public governance and policy networks (Master PA)

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.

194111240 - Public Governance and Policy Networks

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.