Prof. Dr. habil. Ilker Ataç
+49 661 9640-2213
Politics in social work
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building
26,
Room
109
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda
Consultation hours: by arrangement
CV
- Since 2020 Professor of Politics in Social Work at the Department of Social Work at Fulda University of Applied Sciences.
- 2020 Habilitation at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science on the topic: "Making Citizenship: Rights, Policies and Agency".
- 2018-2020 Substitute for the professorship Social Foundations of Social Work at the Faculty of SW, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden
- 2016-2018 Research assistant at the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna. Coordination of the research project "INSIDE the Deportation Gap - Social Membership for Non-Deported Persons".
- 2018 Visiting Fellow post-doctoral researcher at nccr-on the move, University of Neuchatel.
- 2015-2016 Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück, Germany
- 2013-2014 Substitute professor for the Politics of Labour Migration at the University of Kassel
- 2011-2012 Research Fellow at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego and at the Centre for Refugee Studies at the York University, Toronto
- 2012 Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of Salzburg
- 2009-2015 Research Associate (Post-Doc) at the Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna
- 2009-2019 Consultant for Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC). Organisation of the lecture series "Global Dialogue" - lectures on democracy and Turkey
- PhD at the Department of Social Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M.
- 2008-2010 Coordination of the project "Tax Coordination and Economic Performance: Government Budget, Distribution, and the Welfare State
- 2006-2009 Research assistant in the project "VEIL. Values, Equality and Differences in Liberal Democracies. Debates about Muslim Headscarves
- 2007-2009 research assistant in the project "Welche Gegenwart, welche Zukunft? No/one/double integration? A qualitative panel study on the course of attitudes and expectations regarding family, education and career among Viennese pupils".
- 2004-2009 Lecturer at the Institute for International Development and at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna & at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
- 2006-2008 Training seminars for teachers at the Pedagogical Institute Tyrol/Vienna University of Education on the topics of globalisation, migration/citizenship, development policy and Turkey
- 2005-2006 Research assistant at the Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna
- Studies in Political Science at the University of Vienna
- Studies in Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Teaching Areas
- Migration and social policy
- Social movements and civil society
- Human rights, critique of racism, diversity
- Political science basics
Areas of Research
- Undocumented migration and toleration
- Urban citizenship, local social policy
- Civil society actors and social movements
- Migration policy, multi-level system
- Turkish politics, political economy
Research Projects
Gaygusuz v. Austria: social rights of migrants in Austria.
50 Years of the Austrian-Turkish Recruitment Agreement
Memberships
- Co-editor of the journal Movements
- Specialist group "Flight, Migration and the Critique of Racism" of the DGSA
- Council for Migration
- Network Critical Migration and Border Regime Research
- Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW)
- Research group INEX "The Politics of Inclusion & Exclusion", Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna, 2008-2018
- Board member of the Mattersburg Circle for Development Policy at Austrian Universities, 2012-2018.
- Migration and Integration Research Platform, University of Vienna, on the programme committee of the 1st and 2nd annual conferences (2010 and 2012). 2009-2014
- Scientific Review Board "Göç Dergisi - Journal of Migration" and "Mülkiye Dergisi - Journal of Mülkiye", Ankara.
Publications
(recent publications)
- Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home, in: Critical Sociology, with K. Rygiel, M. Stierl
- Arenas of Fragile Alliance (Un-)Making: The Case of Precarious Migrant Activism, in: Social Movement Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2020.1837099 (with Elias Steinhilper)
- "Nationalist discourse of exclusion" in Commentary by Others, Der Standard, 10 July 2020.
- Local responses in restrictive national policy contexts: welfare provisions for non-removed rejected asylum seekers in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Vienna in: Ethnic and Racial Studies (open access) with T. Schütze, V. Reitter
- Embattled participation despite exclusion. Protest by precarious migrants and solidarity initiatives in: Widersprüche, issue 156
- Crackdown or Symbolism? An Analysis of Post-2015 Policy Responses Towards Rejected Asylum Seekers in Austria in: Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (open access) with T. Schütze
- Meeting Spaces as Sites of Policy: Support Initiatives for Refugees in Vienna in: Refugee Migration and Society, (ed.): with S. Jong
- Special Issue Social Policies as a Tool of Migration Control & Deserving Shelter: Conditional Access to Accommodation for Rejected Asylum Seekers in Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden in: Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies (open access)
Further Functions
Reviewer activity
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Citizenship Studies, Sociology, International Political Sociology, Antipode, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Social Inclusion, Peripherie, Urban Planning, Migration Letters, Z'Flucht: Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung, Movements, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Comparative Migration Studies, VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations