Ilker Ataç
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Ilker Ataç is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and part of the research group Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion (INEX) as well as founding editor of the journal Movements. His research interests are in the area of citizenship studies and migration policies, social movement studies and civil society, Turkish politics. In 2013-2014 he was a visiting professor in the field of Politics of Labor Migration in the Department of Social Sciences at the University Kassel. From August 2015 until April 2016 he worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the section “Migration & Society” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück. Between 2009 and 2015 he worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Political Science at the University Vienna. He obtained his PhD degree in 2008 from the Department for Social Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main. He studied Political Science and Economics at University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and University College London. He is currently associated with the project “Inside the Deportation gap. Social membership for non-deported persons.”
Forschungsschwerpunkte: Migrationspolitik, Citizenship Studies, Soziale Bewegungen, Zivilgesellschaft und Migration, türkische Ökonomie und Politik