I am a social and political psychologist working through critical approches (anticolonial, CRT, liberation psychology among others). My research focus on collective action, identity, migration, discrimination by prioritizing a research praxis from below, through lay epistemologies of oppressed but resisting people and communities. I refused to be fully encapsulated in the neoliberal university system. Instead, through scientific affiliations, I try to conduct independent research with small academic...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods

Roles

  • INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER with scientific affiliations (Since 2017)

    Other, Turkey

  • Center fo Social and Cultural Psychology (CeSCuP - Université Libre de Bruxelles)

    University, Bruxelles, Belgium
    Affiliated scientist (since November 2023)

  • Universität Bielefeld Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung

    Research Institute, Bielefeld, Germany
    Associated scientist (since 2018)

  • Centrum voor Sociale en Culturele Psychologie (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

    University, Leuven, Belgium
    Research Assistant and PhD Scholar (2011-2015)

  • Middle East Technical University - Department of Psychology

    University, Ankara, Turkey
    Project Assistant during BSc & MA (2003-2011)

  • Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Other, Brussels, Belgium
    Independent researcher - postdoc fellow

  • Universität Bielefeld Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung

    Other, Bielefeld, Germany
    Associated scientist

  • Istanbul Kemerburgaz University

    University, Istanbul, Turkey
    Assistant Professor

  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Centrum voor Sociale en Culturele Psychologie

    Other, Leuven, Belgium
    Research Assistant and PhD Scholar

  • Middle East Technical University

    University, Ankara, Turkey
    Project Assistant

Research

Resistance from below among racialized peoples: Exploring Kurdish understandings of power

Authors Canan Coşkan, Ercan Şen
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of Social Issues
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1 Journal Article

Locals’ support for integration policies and asylum seekers’ rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey

Authors Yasin Duman, Canan Coşkan
Year 2023
Journal Name Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
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2 Journal Article

“If I die, my children will pursue this case”: Counternarratives of power in Kurds.

Authors Canan Coşkan, Ercan Şen
Year 2023
Journal Name Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
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3 Journal Article

Routes to Collective Action among Opposition Voters: Testing Efficacy, Anger and Injustice in Turkey's Repeated Elections

Authors Canan Coşkan, Gülseli Baysu, Yasin Koc
Year 2022
Book Title Examining Complex Intergroup Relations: Through the Lens of Turkey
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4 Book Chapter

“Syrian” Refugees at the Gaze of Kurds and Arabs in Mardin: Understanding Social Representations and Acculturation Expectations from a Decolonial Approach

Authors Canan Coşkan, Meral Gezici Yalçın, Mine Batu, ...
Year 2022
Book Title Examining Complex Intergroup Relations: Through the Lens of Turkey
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5 Book Chapter

The role of minority discrimination and political participation in shaping majority perceptions of discrimination: Two cross-national studies

Authors Judit Kende, Judit Kende, Julia Reiter, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
Citations (WoS) 4
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6 Journal Article

Discrimination as a Health Systems Response to Forced Migration

Authors Yudit Namer, Canan Coşkan, Oliver Razum
Year 2020
Book Title Health Policy and Systems Responses to Forced Migration
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7 Book Chapter

Academic activism and its impact on individual‐level mobilization, sources of learning, and the future of academia in Turkey

Authors Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Canan Coşkan
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
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8 Journal Article

Reconciliation and intergroup forgiveness: the case of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey

Authors Gülseli Baysu, Canan Coşkan
Year 2018
Journal Name Turkish Studies
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9 Journal Article

Can identification as Muslim increase support for reconciliation? The case of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey

Authors Gulseli Baysu, Canan Coskan, Yasin Duman
Year 2018
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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10 Journal Article

Relationship Context Matters

Authors Canan Coskan, Karen Phalet, Derya Gungor, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Cross-Cultural Research
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11 Journal Article

‘Not a party to this crime’: The reciprocal constitution of identity and morality by signatories of the Academics for Peace petition in Turkey

Authors Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Canan Coşkan, Elif Sandal‐Önal, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name British Journal of Social Psychology
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12 Journal Article

Psikolojide Yöntem Sorunlarına Eleştirel Yaklaşım ve Öneriler

Authors Meral Gezici Yalçın, Canan Çoşkan
Year 2021
Journal Name Psikoloji Çalışmaları / Studies in Psychology
14 Journal Article

Revealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkey

Authors Canan Coşkan, Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Aydın Bayad
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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15 Journal Article

COUNTERNARRATIVES OF POWER IN KURDS

Authors Canan Coşkan, Ercan Şen
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16 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Immigrant political participation is associated with more positive majority immigration attitudes across European countries and Swiss cantons

Authors Judit Kende, Julia Reiter, Canan Coşkan, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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1 Journal Article
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