This report is based on student research conducted in Berlin universities. The research’s main theme is the notion of “Migrant women” into two different categories: Non-EU and EU citizen women. Main objective is to find if these women faced any discrimination in academia and beyond (i.e. daily lives etc.) depending on their country of origin. Therefore, the main research question of this student-based research is: “What is the perception of foreign women in German academia and beyond?”.
The theoretical framework is built upon 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 is that migrant women face discrimination in academia and beyond. Furthermore, the discrimination’s expectation is to find differences between countries (non-EU vs EU).
In order to grasp the nuances of such research, a qualitative interview method was chosen and conducted with a semi-structured schema. The qualitative interviews enlightened important connections between the 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. These exceptional cases and the expected findings direct the newer and different areas of the research with an emphasis on intersectionality research.
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- Özden Bulutbeyaz (Author), 2024, Gendered Understanding in Academia and Beyond. A Comparative Analysis Study of Non-EU and EU Citizen Women, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/1597117
