22.05.2025
[Colloquium:] The Struggles and Class Experiences of Migrant Workers: The Case of Workers from Turkey in Baden-Württemberg
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 18.15 - 20.00 CET; Room 101, Institut für Soziologie (Wilhelmstr. 36, 72074 Tübingen) and via Zoom
On Thursday, 22 May (18.15 - 20.00 CET) Akın Bakioğlu (Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan) will give a talk on “The Struggles and Class Experiences of Migrant Workers: The Case of Workers from Turkey in Baden-Württemberg”. This talk will be held in room 101 at the Insitut für Soziologie (Wilhelmstraße 36, 72074 Tübingen) and can be followed online via Zoom. This event is the second session of the G-TURN colloquium "Urbanities in a Global Perspective: Crises, Changes, and Continuities" of the summer term 2025.
Biography
Associate Professor Akın Bakioğlu is a faculty member at Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology. His research interests include sociology of migration, labor and class studies, digital capitalism, industrial labor, and the historical formation of the working class in Turkey. Dr. Bakioğlu completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in sociology at Süleyman Demirel University and his PhD in Sociology at Ankara University in 2019. In his dissertation, he analyzed the coal mining sector in Turkey and the historical formation of the working class in the Zonguldak region through the axis of class, memory, and space. In recent years, Dr. Bakioğlu has been focusing on international migration, especially on the class positioning, experiences of exclusion and organizing practices of Turkish workers migrating to Germany. She is currently working on her postdoctoral project at the University of Tübingen under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Boris Nieswand. The title of her project is: “Working Experiences of Workers from Turkey in Germany: Exclusion, Intra-Class Position, Organizing”. In addition, Dr. Bakioğlu has been an active member of the board of directors of the Sociological Association of Turkey for almost 10 years and contributes to the organization of the academic community.