Tunay Altay
Biographic Data
| ID | 914610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tunay Altay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tunay |
| FAMILY NAME | Altay |
| SIGNATURE | ALTAY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6069-4134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe
A comparative analysis of far-right politics across Europe and the Middle East with a focus on gender and sexuality Highlights anti-gender and anti-LGBTQ discourses as central to far-right politics across national and regional boundaries Provides an original comparative perspective and de-exceptionalizes the Middle East in the study of far-right politics Showcases local, national, and transnational resistance initiated by grassroots movements and…
Undoing one-dimensionality
This paper critically examines Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform, designed to promote integration and pluralism through legal and societal transformations. We argue that the prevailing migration discourse in Germany reinforces a one-dimensional political framework, reducing migrants to single-issue subjects—either threats or victims, economic assets or social burdens. This approach to migration falls short of capturing Germany’s evolving socio-po…
Queer mountains
This article seeks to understand how staging, performing and re-narrating experiences of queer migration can be utilized to radically reimagine queer migrants' subjectivities and politics in today's Germany. Informed by ethnographic research conducted between 2020 and 2023, including 22 qualitative interviews with drag performers, I focus on the emerging scene of 'migrant drag' in Germany, informed by transnational histories of queer performance …
Overcoming stigma
Since their arrival in Germany as guest workers, women of Turkish background have been subject to stigma and discrimination. Based on interviews with 20 mothers of Turkish background in Germany who send their children to private schools, we reveal the complex experience of stigma and discrimination interwoven with the experience of immigrant motherhood and parenting in educational institutions. We then analyze the stigma-countering strategies ado…
Translating difference
This article explores how the experiences of queer migration shape and inform racialisation, and how racial categories, such as ‘whiteness’ and ‘non-whiteness’, are employed by queer migrants from Turkey in relation to their narratives of belonging and non-belonging in Germany. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Berlin between 2018 and 2022, I aim to show how racism is ambiguously attached to migration and sexual difference, and how ideas of racia…
The pink line across digital publics
COVID-19 has precipitated an increase in political homophobia in Turkey. This article focuses on the interlocking processes of LGBTQ marginalization and exclusion in Turkey with the purpose of uncovering how political homophobia is enforced, experienced, and navigated by LGBTQ people in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the help of two critical conceptual tools, pink line and queer strategies, I first propose a multi-layered conceptualiza…
Crossing borders
Bordering situates immigrant sex workers at the margins of an already marginalised industry and naturalises the legal conditions of their dispossession and precarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, we offer a situated intersectional analysis of the everyday bordering experiences of Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers from Bulgaria (hereafter TISWs). Focusing on three interactional contexts - minority belonging within EU and German po…
The pink line across digital publics
COVID-19 has precipitated an increase in political homophobia in Turkey. This article focuses on the interlocking processes of LGBTQ marginalization and exclusion in Turkey with the purpose of uncovering how political homophobia is enforced, experienced, and navigated by LGBTQ people in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the help of two critical conceptual tools, pink line and queer strategies, I first propose a multi-layered conceptualiza…
Crossing borders
Bordering situates immigrant sex workers at the margins of an already marginalised industry and naturalises the legal conditions of their dispossession and precarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, we offer a situated intersectional analysis of the everyday bordering experiences of Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers from Bulgaria (hereafter TISWs). Focusing on three interactional contexts - minority belonging within EU and German po…
Translating difference
This article explores how the experiences of queer migration shape and inform racialisation, and how racial categories, such as ‘whiteness’ and ‘non-whiteness’, are employed by queer migrants from Turkey in relation to their narratives of belonging and non-belonging in Germany. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Berlin between 2018 and 2022, I aim to show how racism is ambiguously attached to migration and sexual difference, and how ideas of racia…
Queer mountains
This article seeks to understand how staging, performing and re-narrating experiences of queer migration can be utilized to radically reimagine queer migrants' subjectivities and politics in today's Germany. Informed by ethnographic research conducted between 2020 and 2023, including 22 qualitative interviews with drag performers, I focus on the emerging scene of 'migrant drag' in Germany, informed by transnational histories of queer performance …
Crossing borders
Bordering situates immigrant sex workers at the margins of an already marginalised industry and naturalises the legal conditions of their dispossession and precarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, we offer a situated intersectional analysis of the everyday bordering experiences of Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers from Bulgaria (hereafter TISWs). Focusing on three interactional contexts - minority belonging within EU and German po…
The pink line across digital publics
COVID-19 has precipitated an increase in political homophobia in Turkey. This article focuses on the interlocking processes of LGBTQ marginalization and exclusion in Turkey with the purpose of uncovering how political homophobia is enforced, experienced, and navigated by LGBTQ people in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the help of two critical conceptual tools, pink line and queer strategies, I first propose a multi-layered conceptualiza…
Overcoming stigma
Since their arrival in Germany as guest workers, women of Turkish background have been subject to stigma and discrimination. Based on interviews with 20 mothers of Turkish background in Germany who send their children to private schools, we reveal the complex experience of stigma and discrimination interwoven with the experience of immigrant motherhood and parenting in educational institutions. We then analyze the stigma-countering strategies ado…
Translating difference
This article explores how the experiences of queer migration shape and inform racialisation, and how racial categories, such as ‘whiteness’ and ‘non-whiteness’, are employed by queer migrants from Turkey in relation to their narratives of belonging and non-belonging in Germany. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Berlin between 2018 and 2022, I aim to show how racism is ambiguously attached to migration and sexual difference, and how ideas of racia…
Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe
A comparative analysis of far-right politics across Europe and the Middle East with a focus on gender and sexuality Highlights anti-gender and anti-LGBTQ discourses as central to far-right politics across national and regional boundaries Provides an original comparative perspective and de-exceptionalizes the Middle East in the study of far-right politics Showcases local, national, and transnational resistance initiated by grassroots movements and…
Undoing one-dimensionality
This paper critically examines Germany’s 2024 citizenship reform, designed to promote integration and pluralism through legal and societal transformations. We argue that the prevailing migration discourse in Germany reinforces a one-dimensional political framework, reducing migrants to single-issue subjects—either threats or victims, economic assets or social burdens. This approach to migration falls short of capturing Germany’s evolving socio-po…
Queer mountains
This article seeks to understand how staging, performing and re-narrating experiences of queer migration can be utilized to radically reimagine queer migrants' subjectivities and politics in today's Germany. Informed by ethnographic research conducted between 2020 and 2023, including 22 qualitative interviews with drag performers, I focus on the emerging scene of 'migrant drag' in Germany, informed by transnational histories of queer performance …
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Citizenship (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)