Özge Onay
Biographic Data
| ID | 124668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Özge Onay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Özge |
| FAMILY NAME | Onay |
| SIGNATURE | ONAY Ö |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1833-3191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Home but not quite’
This article examines how second-generation British Turks negotiate identity and belonging across the UK and Turkey through a Bourdieusian framework of habitus alongside the discursive processes of racialisation and Islamophobia. Drawing on 30 semi-structured interviews, it shows how participants experience and internalise the UK’s racialised and Islamophobic constructions of Turkey, coded as Muslim, backward and unsafe, while simultaneously navi…
The credential reversal
This paper identifies a distinctive “credential reversal” among British Muslims, whereby higher educational attainment erodes institutional trust, inverting standard meritocratic patterns. Analysing UK European Social Survey data (2002–2023), multi-level models demonstrate this penalty is specific to Muslims and not observed among the White British majority or aggregated non-Muslim minorities. The findings reject cumulative disadvantage theory: r…
Mining the Margins
Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims' encounters with Islamophobia
In the post-9/11 and 7/7 era in Britain, Muslim subjects have been racially labelled as non-white, equated with a security threat. Similarly, within Turkey's secular public sphere, Muslims are portrayed as anti-modern and illiberal. This prompts some British Turkish Muslims, descendants of immigrant Turks, to strategically embrace white, European identities. Drawing from semi-structured interviews, this article reveals how 'whiteness' is a privil…
Reading Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Against the Backdrop of His Cinematic Expression
This paper delves into the visionary filmmaking of Stanley Kubrick, aiming to evoke emotions in viewers similar to the impact of music through his films. Kubrick's perspective on cinema as a progression of moods and feelings, mirroring the qualities of music, becomes evident in The Shining. Based on the ‘shot-by-shot analysis’ as a method of film analysis, the paper explores the intricate visual and musical elements of the film, emphasising mise-…
Brexit's Illusion
The warnings about Turkey's not-so-near accession to the EU are explored as a strategic tool in the Brexit campaign, linking concerns about sovereignty and immigration compounded with the anxieties surrounding Islam and the threat of terrorism. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Edward Said's Orientalism and the unique perspectives gathered from British Turks, this paper sheds light on their nuanced responses. It uncovers strategies of disbe…
Living the clash within
This article addresses the identity constructions of British Turks in the context of the inherent fragmentation of Turkish immigrant parents situated within the historically complex secular or conservative divisions of Turkish politics. British Turks raised in the UK maintain identities defined within the parameters of the either/or epistemology forced by their Turkish immigrant parents, who are either in harmony with Turkish moral values and Isl…
Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims' encounters with Islamophobia
In the post-9/11 and 7/7 era in Britain, Muslim subjects have been racially labelled as non-white, equated with a security threat. Similarly, within Turkey's secular public sphere, Muslims are portrayed as anti-modern and illiberal. This prompts some British Turkish Muslims, descendants of immigrant Turks, to strategically embrace white, European identities. Drawing from semi-structured interviews, this article reveals how 'whiteness' is a privil…
Living the clash within
This article addresses the identity constructions of British Turks in the context of the inherent fragmentation of Turkish immigrant parents situated within the historically complex secular or conservative divisions of Turkish politics. British Turks raised in the UK maintain identities defined within the parameters of the either/or epistemology forced by their Turkish immigrant parents, who are either in harmony with Turkish moral values and Isl…
Living the clash within
This article addresses the identity constructions of British Turks in the context of the inherent fragmentation of Turkish immigrant parents situated within the historically complex secular or conservative divisions of Turkish politics. British Turks raised in the UK maintain identities defined within the parameters of the either/or epistemology forced by their Turkish immigrant parents, who are either in harmony with Turkish moral values and Isl…
Reading Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Against the Backdrop of His Cinematic Expression
This paper delves into the visionary filmmaking of Stanley Kubrick, aiming to evoke emotions in viewers similar to the impact of music through his films. Kubrick's perspective on cinema as a progression of moods and feelings, mirroring the qualities of music, becomes evident in The Shining. Based on the ‘shot-by-shot analysis’ as a method of film analysis, the paper explores the intricate visual and musical elements of the film, emphasising mise-…
Brexit's Illusion
The warnings about Turkey's not-so-near accession to the EU are explored as a strategic tool in the Brexit campaign, linking concerns about sovereignty and immigration compounded with the anxieties surrounding Islam and the threat of terrorism. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Edward Said's Orientalism and the unique perspectives gathered from British Turks, this paper sheds light on their nuanced responses. It uncovers strategies of disbe…
Mining the Margins
Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims' encounters with Islamophobia
In the post-9/11 and 7/7 era in Britain, Muslim subjects have been racially labelled as non-white, equated with a security threat. Similarly, within Turkey's secular public sphere, Muslims are portrayed as anti-modern and illiberal. This prompts some British Turkish Muslims, descendants of immigrant Turks, to strategically embrace white, European identities. Drawing from semi-structured interviews, this article reveals how 'whiteness' is a privil…
‘Home but not quite’
This article examines how second-generation British Turks negotiate identity and belonging across the UK and Turkey through a Bourdieusian framework of habitus alongside the discursive processes of racialisation and Islamophobia. Drawing on 30 semi-structured interviews, it shows how participants experience and internalise the UK’s racialised and Islamophobic constructions of Turkey, coded as Muslim, backward and unsafe, while simultaneously navi…
The credential reversal
This paper identifies a distinctive “credential reversal” among British Muslims, whereby higher educational attainment erodes institutional trust, inverting standard meritocratic patterns. Analysing UK European Social Survey data (2002–2023), multi-level models demonstrate this penalty is specific to Muslims and not observed among the White British majority or aggregated non-Muslim minorities. The findings reject cumulative disadvantage theory: r…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Islamophobia (3 works)