B Bilecen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 28590 |
|---|---|
| NOME | B Bilecen |
| PRENOMES | B |
| SOBRENOME | Bilecen |
| ASSINATURA | BILECEN B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8545-9739 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 290 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Atomized community
This study examines how individual values shape intra-group relationships among highly skilled Chinese migrants in Germany. By integrating Schwartz’s value theory with Heinich’s pragmatic approach to valuation, it explores how values formed through authoritarian socialization in China continue to structure migrants’ relational patterns in transnational contexts. Drawing on Arendt’s theorization of atomization and using ‘Confucian appearance with …
Third places and loneliness in later life
Rethinking Mobile Ethnography
Europe's ageing population includes a growing number of older migrants whose experiences of ageing in place require methods that capture mobility, place, and social participation. Mobile ethnography, particularly walking/go‐along interviews, offers valuable opportunities to examine how older migrants engage with everyday environments. Yet existing mobile research with older migrants has often focused on participants able to take part in walking i…
Social network elements in loneliness interventions for older migrants
Loneliness among older migrants remains a pressing issue, yet the integration of social networks into interventions is poorly understood. This study examines which social network elements contribute to reducing loneliness, and how these are incorporated in Dutch interventions. Using content analysis of intervention materials and trainer interviews, we find a focus on network expansion and support, relationship strength and quality, and expectatio…
Democratic Backsliding and the Politics of Exit
This paper examines highly skilled migration from Turkey to the Netherlands in the aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt, focusing on how democratic backsliding shapes migration decisions. Drawing on 37 in‐depth interviews with academics, health professionals and engineers, the study explores how political pressures, shrinking freedoms and rising conservatism affect individuals' professional autonomy, social relationships, and everyday lives. The fi…
What's Next
While studying abroad, international students not only pursue academic qualifications but also begin to imagine and plan their future mobility trajectories. One central decision concern is whether to remain in the host country after graduation or return to the country of origin or move to another country. This article investigates the individual and social factors that shape post‐graduation work intentions among international Chinese students in …
The Complexity of Connection
This study investigates how adults in the second half of life, both working and retired, actively manage their personal networks to support well-being as their social lives evolve with age. Between November 2022 and April 2023, 28 members of voluntary associations in Germany, aged 45 to 80 (mean age 62), participated in semi-structured interviews that included the construction of egocentric network maps. Using reflexive thematic analysis, two cen…
Responses to Welfare Stigma in the Netherlands
Increasing meritocracy has intensified negative perceptions of individuals in lower socioeconomic positions, especially welfare recipients, who are often viewed as incapable, lazy, or unmotivated. We conducted twenty-nine in-depth interviews with long-term social assistance recipients (SARs) in the Netherlands to explore their experiences with welfare stigmatisation. We used García-Lorenzo and colleagues’ (2022) typology to analyse SARs’ response…
Beyond democratic exposure
This study examines how authoritarian socialisation creates enduring psychological configurations that shape political disaffection among highly skilled Chinese migrants in Germany. Drawing on 62 in-depth interviews, we investigate how individuals who possess significant socioeconomic resources and substantial access to democratic institutions nevertheless exhibit persistent political disaffection. Our analysis reveals that political disaffection…
The Role of Family Ties in Mobility and Immobility Decisions
This study investigates the influence of family ties on mobility and immobility decisions within the Reventino‐Savuto area of Calabria, Italy. Recognizing the significant impact of family connections on migration dynamics, the research explores how these ties act as both motivators for relocation and deterrents against moving. By providing emotional, financial and practical support, family networks shape individual decisions to either migrate or …
Social networks in migration and migrant incorporation
Migration cannot be understood without comprehending the social networks that surround and sustain it. Research over the past several decades has increasingly shown that social networks are crucial to explain what causes migration, how migration takes place, and what its consequences are for migrants, their families, and their sending and receiving communities. Reflecting this growing awareness, scholarship at the network-migration nexus has stea…
Exploring Well-Being Among Older Migrants
Towards tailored social work interventions for long‐term social assistance recipients in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, there are many households with long‐term dependency on social assistance. Social policies and interventions for this population frequently utilise ‘work first’ and ‘human capital’ approaches, resulting in minimal positive outcomes. Therefore, it is essential to implement social work interventions that prioritise the unique challenges and well‐being needs of long‐term social assistance recipients (SARs). To develop intervention…
The puzzle of loneliness
The experience of loneliness is common among international students who study in a foreign country, away from their home. Loneliness refers to the difference between the actual and desired social relationships highlighting not only the quantity but also the quality of relationships. We argue for a perspective on loneliness that emphasizes its social context rather than relying mainly on individualistic or psychological interpretations prevalent t…
Covid has stopped us all
This research examined how migrant care workers in eldercare institutions in Germany were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on their personal experiences. The research is theoretically grounded in intersectionality and the prisoner of love framework. Drawing on 15 qualitative interviews with migrant care workers (MCWs) from Poland and Bosnia-Herzegovina, the main findings highlight that intersecting social positions play an important ro…
Transformations of transnational care in times of the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities in care between mobile and immobile populations. It has highlighted the precarious situation of many migranticized individuals and their families worldwide, but it has also brought their situation into the public eye, providing opportunities for advances in social science understanding and policy reform. This Special Issue explores the interplay between transnational care arrangements, c…
Transnationale ongelijkheiden door de studie van globale gezinnen
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Linguistic capital and social inequalities
This paper explores the role of linguistic capital in production and reproduction of social inequalities drawing on 20 in‐depth qualitative interviews with Chinese international students in a German university. The paper highlights that while studying abroad can provide advantages when it comes to learning a new foreign language, it can also bring some disadvantages for those who are educated in a foreign language. It underscores that being profi…
Uncertainties shaping parental educational decisions
Around a million school-aged minors from Syria have been living in Turkey with temporary protection status over an unanticipated extended period. This prolonged temporariness leads to uncertainties and unpredictabilities for Syrian families regarding how long they will be staying in Turkey. Drawing on 17 interviews with Syrian mothers and 3 couples, this study examined the ways in which uncertainties shaped parental decisions on minors' education…
The Role of Parent‐Child Relationships and Filial Expectations in Loneliness Among Older Turkish Migrants
Older first‐generation migrants living in Europe, particularly Turkish migrants, feel relatively lonely, which indicates social exclusion. Social embeddedness within the family, particularly parent‐child relationships, can alleviate loneliness for older migrants, but such relationships can also be ambivalent, which may not prevent loneliness altogether. Earlier research indicates that Turkish migrants in Germany report high quality relationships …
Personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective
Through qualitative personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective, this article contributes to the debate on the salience of ethnicity as a defining, yet essentialized, category in transnational migration research. The article includes a theoretical and methodological discussion of qualitative personal network analysis as a means to alleviate the risks of overemphasizing ethnicity over other categories, which provides the backgroun…
The isolation paradox
The networked character of migration and transnationalism
Soziologie der Migration
Migration is one of the most significant consequences of the change in our social order. Accordingly, the causes of migration as well as its impacts on education, the labor market, and politics are deserving of broad consideration. This textbook contextualizes issues related to migration using theory and concepts, introduces the reader to the relevant methodology, and provides examples of successful empirical research.
Commentary
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives and exacerbated existing inequalities. One major area that has experienced a fundamental transformation is higher education, as teaching has become digitalized almost overnight across the globe. Campuses were ordered to be evacuated, leaving the lively classrooms, laboratories, dorms and cafeterias abandoned. In an attempt to prevent further spread of the virus, schools cancelled gradua…
Transnational Social Protection
How migrants organise their social protection is not a straightforward process but, rather, a much more intricate and nuanced one, which takes into account the manifold state regulations, supranational frameworks and civil society organisations, as well as the migrants themselves and their significant others spread across various state borders. This introduction to our special issue examines the social protection strategies of migrants, the ways …
On the Assemblages of Informal and Formal Transnational Social Protection
Social protection is an assemblage of informal and formal elements. These opposites – ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ – have been a feature of social policy discourse for a long time. Here, informal social protection is taken as that provided by interpersonal networks, whereas formal social protection is conceptualised as being provided by the state and organisations. This article draws on several bodies of literature on social protection to show how the…
Social Inequalities Through the Lens of Social Protection
This concluding article to our special issue places the linkage of social protection and social inequalities in a broader context, namely the transnational social question in Europe and its periphery. The transnational social question pertains to the perception of social inequalities as illegitimate and to their politicisation. In so doing, this article also draws preliminary conclusions, based upon the main findings of the contributions in this …
Approaching Transnational Social Protection
Transnational social spaces are multidimensional in terms of the socio‐spatial categories – that is, local, global, and national – and different actors and institutions involved. Recent developments in transnational methodology argue for a thorough reflection on the challenges of methodological nationalism, essentialism, and researchers' positionality. Therefore, in designing and conducting transnational research, reflections on methodological ch…
Informal Social Protection Networks of Migrants
Social network analysis, together with qualitative methods, is an approach to the study of cross‐border phenomena. The main goal of the article is to display the utility of network analysis particularly to investigate social protection within and across borders. Drawing on 300 ego‐centric networks of immigrants in Germany from three countries of origin (Kazakhstan, Poland and Turkey), this article maps their social protection practices. Transnati…
Home-making practices and social protection across borders
International doctoral students as knowledge brokers
In this article, we examine the role of brokerage, the knowledge that brokers transfer and the social conditions of that transfer. Previous research suggests that highly skilled migrants spanning multiple locales have the advantage of being able to transfer knowledge as they move from one place to another. In this study, using a network perspective, we look at the activities of international doctoral students in their transfer of knowledge and il…
Turkish–German Transnational Social Space
This paper examines the social protection strategies of migrants living in Turkish–German transnational social space. Drawing on 20 interviews conducted with migrants in Germany and ten with their significant others in Turkey with a matched sample, we investigate ‘stitching’ strategy, that is, a process by which migrants in the host country continually attach themselves to the society back in their country of origin and, as a result, tap into pro…
The networked character of migration and transnationalism
Commentary
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives and exacerbated existing inequalities. One major area that has experienced a fundamental transformation is higher education, as teaching has become digitalized almost overnight across the globe. Campuses were ordered to be evacuated, leaving the lively classrooms, laboratories, dorms and cafeterias abandoned. In an attempt to prevent further spread of the virus, schools cancelled gradua…
Negotiating differences
Drawing on the literature on international student experiences and identities, this study discusses theories of identity from a social constructionist perspective. ‘Identification’ is the preferred term to describe a dynamic process through which students negotiate the meaning of their identities in different societies and communities. Based on interviews with 35 international doctoral students from two graduate schools in Germany, the article il…
Transformations of transnational care in times of the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities in care between mobile and immobile populations. It has highlighted the precarious situation of many migranticized individuals and their families worldwide, but it has also brought their situation into the public eye, providing opportunities for advances in social science understanding and policy reform. This Special Issue explores the interplay between transnational care arrangements, c…
The isolation paradox
Personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective
Through qualitative personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective, this article contributes to the debate on the salience of ethnicity as a defining, yet essentialized, category in transnational migration research. The article includes a theoretical and methodological discussion of qualitative personal network analysis as a means to alleviate the risks of overemphasizing ethnicity over other categories, which provides the backgroun…
Asymmetries in Transnational Social Protection
This study investigates the extent to which migrants' embeddedness in two formal social protection systems (country of origin and host country) influences the resources they exchange in their informal supportive relationships. I analyze the support networks of a matched sample of Turkish migrants in Germany and their significant others in Turkey to illuminate the conditions and meaning of reciprocal resource exchanges, finding that both migrants …
Coming out within transnational families
This article is about ‘coming out’ and the process of disclosure of queer migrants within their transnational families. Despite debates about the decreasing relevance of coming out in contemporary western societies, we argue that the process of coming out continues to be a central mode of belonging and identity construction for queers in the context of transnational migration. Interviews with migrants from Poland, Russia and Turkey in Germany on …
Social networks in migration and migrant incorporation
Migration cannot be understood without comprehending the social networks that surround and sustain it. Research over the past several decades has increasingly shown that social networks are crucial to explain what causes migration, how migration takes place, and what its consequences are for migrants, their families, and their sending and receiving communities. Reflecting this growing awareness, scholarship at the network-migration nexus has stea…
Gendered dynamics of transnational social protection
Social protection refers to resources and strategies to deal with social risks, such as poverty or obligations and needs of care, which might impede the realization of life chances and well-being. Previous research has shown that migrants are particularly affected by challenges when accessing or providing social protection, because of unfamiliar welfare regulations in the immigration country and their family and friends being located in various l…
Altın Günü’
Although there is an increasing interest in the role of personal networks in migrants’ social protection, they are usually either treated as ‘given’ or the ‘second-best’ option for protection against social risks such as poverty. Altın Günü (The Day of Gold) is a specific form of Turkish women’s networks functioning as a type of rotating savings and credit association promoting both savings and make financial capital available to its members with…
The puzzle of loneliness
The experience of loneliness is common among international students who study in a foreign country, away from their home. Loneliness refers to the difference between the actual and desired social relationships highlighting not only the quantity but also the quality of relationships. We argue for a perspective on loneliness that emphasizes its social context rather than relying mainly on individualistic or psychological interpretations prevalent t…
Exploring Well-Being Among Older Migrants
Covid has stopped us all
This research examined how migrant care workers in eldercare institutions in Germany were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on their personal experiences. The research is theoretically grounded in intersectionality and the prisoner of love framework. Drawing on 15 qualitative interviews with migrant care workers (MCWs) from Poland and Bosnia-Herzegovina, the main findings highlight that intersecting social positions play an important ro…
The Role of Parent‐Child Relationships and Filial Expectations in Loneliness Among Older Turkish Migrants
Older first‐generation migrants living in Europe, particularly Turkish migrants, feel relatively lonely, which indicates social exclusion. Social embeddedness within the family, particularly parent‐child relationships, can alleviate loneliness for older migrants, but such relationships can also be ambivalent, which may not prevent loneliness altogether. Earlier research indicates that Turkish migrants in Germany report high quality relationships …
Stratification and Inequality, Theories of
Research on stratification and inequality has been mainly preoccupied with differential resource allocation in a given society, thereby mainly assuming that class is the main predictor. In addition to class, more recent studies have turned their attention to multiple dimensions of inequality including gender, ethnicity/race, and age among others, thus using the term in the plural and investigating the processes leading to inequalities and stratif…
Qualitative sampling in research on international student mobility
Although over the past decades the numbers of studies investigating international student mobility and migration (ISM) increased, methodological challenges in empirical research on the topic have remained mainly unaddressed. This is particularly the case for sampling, which is a crucial but often less considered part of qualitative research designs. In this article, we identify three main challenges in qualitative sampling for research into ISM: …
Negotiating differences
Drawing on the literature on international student experiences and identities, this study discusses theories of identity from a social constructionist perspective. ‘Identification’ is the preferred term to describe a dynamic process through which students negotiate the meaning of their identities in different societies and communities. Based on interviews with 35 international doctoral students from two graduate schools in Germany, the article il…
Informal Social Protection Networks of Migrants
Social network analysis, together with qualitative methods, is an approach to the study of cross‐border phenomena. The main goal of the article is to display the utility of network analysis particularly to investigate social protection within and across borders. Drawing on 300 ego‐centric networks of immigrants in Germany from three countries of origin (Kazakhstan, Poland and Turkey), this article maps their social protection practices. Transnati…
Turkish–German Transnational Social Space
This paper examines the social protection strategies of migrants living in Turkish–German transnational social space. Drawing on 20 interviews conducted with migrants in Germany and ten with their significant others in Turkey with a matched sample, we investigate ‘stitching’ strategy, that is, a process by which migrants in the host country continually attach themselves to the society back in their country of origin and, as a result, tap into pro…
On the Assemblages of Informal and Formal Transnational Social Protection
Social protection is an assemblage of informal and formal elements. These opposites – ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ – have been a feature of social policy discourse for a long time. Here, informal social protection is taken as that provided by interpersonal networks, whereas formal social protection is conceptualised as being provided by the state and organisations. This article draws on several bodies of literature on social protection to show how the…
Social Inequalities Through the Lens of Social Protection
This concluding article to our special issue places the linkage of social protection and social inequalities in a broader context, namely the transnational social question in Europe and its periphery. The transnational social question pertains to the perception of social inequalities as illegitimate and to their politicisation. In so doing, this article also draws preliminary conclusions, based upon the main findings of the contributions in this …
Transnational Social Protection
How migrants organise their social protection is not a straightforward process but, rather, a much more intricate and nuanced one, which takes into account the manifold state regulations, supranational frameworks and civil society organisations, as well as the migrants themselves and their significant others spread across various state borders. This introduction to our special issue examines the social protection strategies of migrants, the ways …
Migration, Health and Inequality
The challenge of this book's editors, Thomas and Gideon, is to investigate the many levels at which migration, health and inequalities intersect within broader structures and processes. The editors
Home-making practices and social protection across borders
Approaching Transnational Social Protection
Transnational social spaces are multidimensional in terms of the socio‐spatial categories – that is, local, global, and national – and different actors and institutions involved. Recent developments in transnational methodology argue for a thorough reflection on the challenges of methodological nationalism, essentialism, and researchers' positionality. Therefore, in designing and conducting transnational research, reflections on methodological ch…
International doctoral students as knowledge brokers
In this article, we examine the role of brokerage, the knowledge that brokers transfer and the social conditions of that transfer. Previous research suggests that highly skilled migrants spanning multiple locales have the advantage of being able to transfer knowledge as they move from one place to another. In this study, using a network perspective, we look at the activities of international doctoral students in their transfer of knowledge and il…
Do transnational brokers always win? A multilevel analysis of social support
Transnational knowledge networks
In a global context where knowledge plays a crucial role in, among others, economic growth and regional development, migrants, international students, academics, and highly skilled professionals have been increasingly considered valuable human capital for economies as well as for higher education institutions. Knowledge is generally seen as a competence generated through learning, experience, using specific languages, and being part of different …
The missing link
Temporarily protected Syrians’ access to the healthcare system in Turkey
The recent increase in the migratory flows of Syrian asylum-seekers has drawn attention to the causes and, more fundamentally, to the consequences of such mobility patterns in both the European Union and in Turkey. In this paper we explore the healthcare system in Turkey and, particularly, Syrians’ access to healthcare services. Bringing together the literature on healthcare and on mobility from conflict zones, this paper advances our understandi…
Qualitative sampling in research on international student mobility
Although over the past decades the numbers of studies investigating international student mobility and migration (ISM) increased, methodological challenges in empirical research on the topic have remained mainly unaddressed. This is particularly the case for sampling, which is a crucial but often less considered part of qualitative research designs. In this article, we identify three main challenges in qualitative sampling for research into ISM: …
Coming out within transnational families
This article is about ‘coming out’ and the process of disclosure of queer migrants within their transnational families. Despite debates about the decreasing relevance of coming out in contemporary western societies, we argue that the process of coming out continues to be a central mode of belonging and identity construction for queers in the context of transnational migration. Interviews with migrants from Poland, Russia and Turkey in Germany on …
Gendered dynamics of transnational social protection
Social protection refers to resources and strategies to deal with social risks, such as poverty or obligations and needs of care, which might impede the realization of life chances and well-being. Previous research has shown that migrants are particularly affected by challenges when accessing or providing social protection, because of unfamiliar welfare regulations in the immigration country and their family and friends being located in various l…
Altın Günü’
Although there is an increasing interest in the role of personal networks in migrants’ social protection, they are usually either treated as ‘given’ or the ‘second-best’ option for protection against social risks such as poverty. Altın Günü (The Day of Gold) is a specific form of Turkish women’s networks functioning as a type of rotating savings and credit association promoting both savings and make financial capital available to its members with…
Soziologie der Migration
Migration is one of the most significant consequences of the change in our social order. Accordingly, the causes of migration as well as its impacts on education, the labor market, and politics are deserving of broad consideration. This textbook contextualizes issues related to migration using theory and concepts, introduces the reader to the relevant methodology, and provides examples of successful empirical research.
Commentary
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives and exacerbated existing inequalities. One major area that has experienced a fundamental transformation is higher education, as teaching has become digitalized almost overnight across the globe. Campuses were ordered to be evacuated, leaving the lively classrooms, laboratories, dorms and cafeterias abandoned. In an attempt to prevent further spread of the virus, schools cancelled gradua…
Stratification and Inequality, Theories of
Research on stratification and inequality has been mainly preoccupied with differential resource allocation in a given society, thereby mainly assuming that class is the main predictor. In addition to class, more recent studies have turned their attention to multiple dimensions of inequality including gender, ethnicity/race, and age among others, thus using the term in the plural and investigating the processes leading to inequalities and stratif…
Asymmetries in Transnational Social Protection
This study investigates the extent to which migrants' embeddedness in two formal social protection systems (country of origin and host country) influences the resources they exchange in their informal supportive relationships. I analyze the support networks of a matched sample of Turkish migrants in Germany and their significant others in Turkey to illuminate the conditions and meaning of reciprocal resource exchanges, finding that both migrants …
The Role of Parent‐Child Relationships and Filial Expectations in Loneliness Among Older Turkish Migrants
Older first‐generation migrants living in Europe, particularly Turkish migrants, feel relatively lonely, which indicates social exclusion. Social embeddedness within the family, particularly parent‐child relationships, can alleviate loneliness for older migrants, but such relationships can also be ambivalent, which may not prevent loneliness altogether. Earlier research indicates that Turkish migrants in Germany report high quality relationships …
Personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective
Through qualitative personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective, this article contributes to the debate on the salience of ethnicity as a defining, yet essentialized, category in transnational migration research. The article includes a theoretical and methodological discussion of qualitative personal network analysis as a means to alleviate the risks of overemphasizing ethnicity over other categories, which provides the backgroun…
The isolation paradox
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