ERIS Experts – Can Aybek

Can Aybek is Professor of Empirical Social Research at the City University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Germany. He studied International Relations/Political Sciences, History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as History and Culture of the Middle East as well as Turcology in Ankara and Munich. Aybek obtained his doctoral degree (magna cum laude) from the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). He worked at various universities as well as the German Federal Institute for Population Research in Wiesbaden. He was a postdoctoral fellow of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute in Florence/Italy, a fellow of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst/Germany and in the academic year 2016/17 he became the Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Department of Sociology, University of Toronto/Canada.

Aybek’s research interests in recent years focus on methodological issues in social scientific research, research on practices of social work and implementation of social policies with a special focus on youth and interdependence of socio-spatial aspects as well as analysis of migration and integration processes of immigrants and policies targeting to influence these processes on the international, national and local level.

For further information please contact:
E-mail: Can.Aybek@hs-bremen.de
Website: www.can-aybek.eu

Selected publications

Monographs

Aybek, C. (2014): Migrantenjugendliche zwischen Schule und Beruf: Individuelle Übergänge und kommunale Strukturen der Ausbildungsförderung [Immigrant Youth between School and Profession: Individual Transitions and Urban Structures Supporting Vocational Training]. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Windzio, M.; Aybek, C. (2012): Erwachsen werden in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Der Auszug aus dem Elternhaus bei jungen Erwachsenen türkischer und deutscher Herkunft [Growing Up in the Immigration Society: Leaving the Parental Home among Young Adults of Turkish and German Origin]. Würzburg: Ergon.

Editorships

Aybek, C.; Milewski, N. (eds.) (2019): Family Migration Processes in a Comparative Perspective. Journal for Family Research, 2019, Vol. 31, No. 2

Aybek, C.; Huinink, J.; Muttarak, R. (eds.) (2015): Spatial Mobility, Family Lives and Living Arrangements. Cham: Springer.

Wingens, M.; Windzio, M.; Valk, H.; Aybek, C. (eds.) (2011): A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration. Dordrecht: Springer.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Windzio, M.; Aybek, C. (2015): Marriage, Norm-Orientations and Leaving Parental Home: Turkish Immigrant and Native Families in Germany. In Comparative Population Studies 40 (2), pp. 105–130.

Aybek, C. (2015): Time Matters: Temporal Aspects of Transnational Intimate Relationships and Marriage Migration Processes From Turkey to Germany. In Journal of Family Issues 36 (11), pp. 1529–1549.

Straßburger, G.; Aybek, C. (2014): Arrangierte Ehen zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei: Der Einfluss räumlicher Distanz, gesetzlicher Regelungen und neuer Kommunikationstechnologie auf transnationale Heiratsprozesse [Arranged Marriages between Germany and Turkey: The Influences of Spatial Distance, Legal Regulations, and New Communication Technologies]. In GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft 6 (3), pp. 110–123.

Selected projects

Research Project “Remote Interpreting in Social Work Settings: Challenges and Good-Practices” (2022)

Study Group “Risks and Uncertainties in the Context of Migration and Integration” funded by the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (2015–2017)

Research Project “Marriage Migration from Turkey to Germany – a Dyadic Longitudinal Qualitative Perspective” (2010–2011)

Research Project “Growing Up in the Immigration Society: Leaving the Parental Home among Young Adults of Turkish and German Origin” funded by the Federal Institute for Demographic Research, Wiesbaden (2008–2009)

Zveřejněno / aktualizováno: 12. 04. 2022