Inhalt des Dokuments
Viola-Donata Rauch
[1]
- © CMS
viola.rauch@metropolitanstudies.de [2]
Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS)
TU Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, TEL 3-0
10587 Berlin
Dissertation
"Me, Myself and the City: Urban
Identifications and Negotiations of Belonging of Children of
Immigrants in Berlin"
Children of immigrants
and their position in society have become the subject of both public
concern and academic scrutiny in recent years. More than their
immigrant parents, they have come to represent the diversity of
contemporary societies and the challenges associated with this. In the
German context they have become a focal point of the broader
„integration debate".
This debate, especially so
with regard to children of immigrants, is characterized by an
abundance of negative urban images, resulting in a conceptualization
of the city as ghetto (Vgl. Stehle 2006), site of failure of
integration or stage for conflict and crime. Somewhat surprisingly,
children of immigrants have developed a counter-narrative by
increasingly making use of urban identifications to position
themselves in the discourse. By stressing their self-identification as
Berliners, they are countering the popular image of the generation
„sitting on the fence" and ascribe a central role in their
identity construction to the city.
Even though such urban
identifications have been surfacing in numerous studies on children of
immigrants (among many, Kasinitz et al 2008, Mannitz 2006, TIES Study)
little is known about nature, characteristics and potentials of them,
as Schiffauer has noted recently (2008, chap.4).
The study
examines expressions of identifications as Berliners, such as
autobiographical text, song lyrics, public statements in politics,
representations in online communities and other narratives. In a next
step, those identifications are further explored through biographical
interviews focusing on construction processes and the linkages to
(othering) discourses on the group and other identifications available
to them.
It is argued here that the self-identification as
Berliner offers a way to reconcile elements that are routinely
conceptualized as contradictory and expressions of either German or
Turkish „culture", and to constructively deal with ambivalence
and conflict resulting from marginalization as Others. Furthermore, it
offers an individual mode of representation as alternative to or
complementation of national, religious or ethnic identifications that
are often exclusive and predefined in their nature. The Berlin
identifications are analysed as boundary making (Alba 2006, Wimmer
2008) as they challenge the existing topography of ethnic boundaries
and open up alternative spaces for negotiating of
belonging.
Lebenslauf
ab 2011
Stipendiatin des Migration
Studies Programms der Bucerius- ZEIT-Stiftung Hamburg
www.settling-into-motion.de
[3]
2008-2010
Center
for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin DFG Dissertations-Stipendium im
Transatlantischen Graduiertenkolleg
2009
Stipendiatin
der Deutsch-Türkischen Zukunftswerkstatt für Geisteswissenschaftler
II des Goethe-Instituts und der Middle East Technical University in
Ankara.
2008
Fellow im EU Programm FUTURE:
"Future Urban Research in Europe"
zum Thema 2008:
"Ethnically Diverse City" an der Bauhaus-Uni Weimar. FUTURE
ist ein europaweites Forschungsnetzwerk zur Zukunft der europäischen
Stadt.
2007
UN HABITAT Headquarters, Nairobi,
Kenya
Projektarbeit, Carlo-Schmid- Stipendium (DAAD / Deutsche
Studienstiftung)
2006
Technische Universität
Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin
Magisterabschluß in
Soziologie und Ethnologie
2001-2006
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Stipendiatin der Studienförderung
2005
United Nations Headquarters Office, UN HABITAT
Office, NYC, USA
Praktikum, DAAD-Stipendium
2003-2005
Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Stadt-
und Regionalsoziologie
Tutorenstelle mit Lehraufgaben
2002-2003
New School University, NYC, USA
Graduate
Study am Department of Sociology, mit Schwerpunkt Urban Ethnography,
DAAD-Jahresstipendium
2002
Freie Universität
Berlin
Grundstudiumsabschluß in Soziologie und Ethnologie
2001-2002
Kreuzberg Museum Berlin (Senat Berlin)
Praktikum und Projektassistenz, Planung und Koordination einer
Quartiersausstellung
Publikationen, Vorträge etc.
VORTRÄGE
"Be
Berlin? Perspektiven mit Migrationsgeschichte auf das heutige
Berlin" im Rahmen der Sommerakademie "Städtische
Minderheiten in Europa" der Leibniz-Universität Hannover,
September 2010.
"A Berliner is not a Berliner-
Investigating urban identifications of descendants of
immigrants", RC21 session: "The Impact of Im/migration on
Urban Culture, Public Arts and Public Space", International
Sociological Association World Congress, Gothenburg, July 2010.
"You talkin' to me? Narratives of belonging and
protest"
European City Project 2010: Ethnicity in the City,
organized by Multicultural Center Prague, Berlin, June 2010.
"Berlin als Antwort. Stadt als individuelle Positionierung und
diskursiver Raum der Aushandlung von Zugehörigkeit heute",
Emergeandsee-Festival 2010, Berlin, June 2010.
"The
m-word: urban identifications of Berliners with 'migration background'
", City&Migration Seminar 2010, CMS/Finland Institute,
Berlin, May 2010.
"Close Proximity, Contiguity,
Neighborhood. Notes on concepts of German-Turkish
Nachbarschaft and belonging" Symposium, Goethe-Institut,
Middle-East Technical University, Ankara, Dezember 2009.
"Negotiating a different Germany: children of immigrants from
Turkey engage in current discourses around integration and
diversity" at Deutsch-Türkische Zukunftswerkstatt II des
Goethe-Instituts, Middle-East Technical University, Ankara, Dezember
2009.
"Belonging vs. 'Integration': discourses around
and positionings of descendants of immigrants today", at
"Migration In Cities: Focus on ethnic groups" Conference,
Finland Institute, Dublin, November 2009.
"Whatever
Happened to the City? On the Urban Dimension of Second Generation
Research", at City Matters Symposium, AHRC / CRONEM Conference
2009: "Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries,
New Directions", University of Surrey, June 2009.
"When the Other Side of the City talks Back -
Urban
identifications of children of immigrants as mode of intervention in
othering discourses", Workshop "All quiet on the wrong side
of the tracks?", CMS, June 2009.
"Turkish?
German? Berliner! The second generation negotiates belonging and
self-representations in the city" at "Self-Representation
& the City" at City Session, Second Generation Research
Dialogues, CMS, January 2009.
"More Than An Urban
Stage. The City's Impact on Self-Representation of Children of
Immigrants in Berlin", FUTURE Research Network Konferenz, Bauhaus
Universität Weimar, November 2008.
„Migration and
Integration. Diskurse in Deutschland und den USA“ im Rahmen des
Seminarprogramms der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn, 2005.
„Women Migrants in Germany“ Input statement beim UniFemme IA
meeting, UN Headquarters, New York, 2005.
„Second
generation Turkish migrants in Berlin“ auf der SASE (Society for the
Advancement of Socio-Economics) Jahrestagung, Budapest, 2005.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
"Rethinking the Future of the German-Turkish Nexus",
Organisation und Moderation der Dritten Deutsch-Türkischen
Zukunftswerkstatt, veranstaltet vom Goethe Institut Ankara und der
Middle East Technical Universität Ankara, Kappadokien, September
2010.
"Multicultural Capital, Diversity Celebration,
Integration Machinery? Exploring Berlin." Research workshop with
students, European City Project 2010: Ethnicity in the City,
organized by Multicultural Center Prague, Berlin, June 2010.
"Living in the City: Children of immigrants in Dublin, Berlin,
Helsinki", City & Migration Seminar 2010, cooperation of
Finland Institute Berlin, Finnish Institute London, CMS Berlin,
Berlin, May 2010.
"All quiet on the wrong side of the
tracks? Inquiries into the interrelation of the Other and the City
today" , interdisciplinary workshop held at CMS in June 2009.
Second Generation Research Dialogues: Comparative Perspectives
on Children of Immigrants Today, CMS in January 2009. The workshop
facilitated interdisciplinary and international exchange among senior
and junior researchers involved in research on descendants of
immigrants and focused on two main themes: "Second generation and
the city" and "Second generation in school".
"Empowerment, Recognition and Participation. Inclusive History,
Inclusive Museums." Workshop-Moderation im Rahmen der Tagung
"Migrations in Museums" des Netzwerks Migration / ICOM
Europe, Berlin, Oktober 2008.
VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN
"Gestatten,
Berlinerin! Zum Verhältnis von Zugehörigkeit und Stadt bei
Nachkommen von MigrantInnen aus der Türkei" (20101) in: Färber,
Alexa (Hrsg.): Stoffwechsel Berlin. Urbane Präsenzen und
Repräsentationen", Berliner Blätter 53/2010, Panama Verlag.
More Than an Urban Stage for Conflict-The city's impact on
self-representation of second generation immigrants in Berlin
(forthcoming, 2009) in: The Ethnically Diverse City Reader, Berliner
Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin.
LEHRE
Tutor of the CUNY/ Humboldt DAAD Summer School 2010
"Multiple Forms of In/Exclusion. How Urban Forms and
Institutions Create and Reflect Patterns of In/Exclusion: Comparing
Notes on Berlin and New York"
June 2010
Berlin
2.0 Die Bedeutung der Stadt für Identität und
Selbstrepräsentation der zweiten Generation Migranten. Seminar am
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der HU Berlin, Sommer-Semester
2009.
MITGLIEDSCHAFTEN & ENGAGEMENT
Mitglied von IMISCOE (International Migration,
Integration and Social Cohesion, European Research Network)
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
Foreigner.de (Fremdsein und Kunst)
Friedrich-Ebert
Arbeitsgruppe “Migration”
Ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit am
Kreuzberg Museum Berlin
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