Abstract Book of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Research in Social Sciences Studies
Year: 2025
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Gendered Understanding in Academia and Beyond: A Comparative Analysis Study of Non-EU And EU Citizen Women
Özden Bulutbeyaz
ABSTRACT:
This report is based on student research that is conducted in Berlin universities. The research’s main theme is the notion of “Migrant women”. The notion of “Migrant Women” were taken into two different categories: Non-EU and EU citizen women as a separate entity. Research’s main aim is to find if these women faced any discrimination in academia and beyond (i.e., daily lives etc.) depending on their country of origin. The main research question of this student-based research is:
“What is the perception of foreign women in German Academia and beyond?”.
Theoretical framework of this paper is the intersectionality principle, international migration theories, and gendered organisations (in relation to migration). Intersectionality is the core theoretical framework of the research. The main expectation from the research is to find out that the migrant women face discrimination in academia and beyond. Furthermore, the discrimination’s expectation from this research is to find differences between countries (non-EU vs EU), when it comes to the notion of “migrant women”. Here, as stated, the helpful tool to grasp the expectation is the intersectionality perspective. For the greater grasp of the research, the methodology was chosen in order to be based on qualitative interview method. Interviews conducted as semi-structured schema. The qualitative interviews enlightened the very important notion of gendered organisations, racism, as well as the notion of “migrant women”. As the key findings, the expectations were met with exceptional cases: Migrant women tend to face more discrimination when they are from non-EU countries. The exceptional cases and the expected findings direct the newer and different areas of the research with an emphasis on intersectionality research.
keywords: citizenship, content analysis, interviews, migration, qualitative research