I am a sociologist and I work as an Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My research broadly falls under the areas of ethnic and migration studies, sociology of education and family, as well as youth sociology, with a focus on social inequalities. I am particularly interested in how ethnic, social class and gender inequalities are (re)produced or overcome applying a comparative lens.Currently I am working on a research project concerning the parenting...

Roles

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Senior Researcher

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Other, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Other, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Erasmus University Rotterdam

    University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Post-doc Researcher

Research

Defining Swedishness: When Swedes Without a Migration Background Are a Local Numerical Minority

Authors Marina Lazëri, Elif Keskiner, Maurice Crul
Year 2024
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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1 Journal Article

Being an Ethnic Minority: Belonging Uncertainty of People Without a Migration Background

Authors Lisa-Marie Kraus, Elif Keskiner, Maurice Crul
Year 2024
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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2 Journal Article

Revisiting the established-outsider constellation in a gentrifying majority-minority neighbourhood

Authors Elif Keskiner, Ismintha Waldring
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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3 Journal Article

How do people without migration background experience and impact today’s superdiverse cities?

Authors Maurice Crul, Frans Lelie, Elif Keskiner, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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4 Journal Article

The (un)making of Dutch ‘care girls’: An ethnographic study on aspirations, internship experiences and labour market perspectives

Authors Talitha Stam, Elif Keskiner
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Vocational Education & Training
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5 Journal Article

Superdiversity, Young People, and Education

Authors Elif Keskiner, Maurice Crul, Ismintha Waldring, ...
Year 2022
Book Title The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity
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6 Book Chapter

Becoming Successful in the Business and Law Sectors: Institutional Structures and Individual Resources

Authors Elif Keskiner, Christine Lang, Ali Konyali, ...
Year 2022
Book Title New Social Mobility
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7 Book Chapter

Are “Weak Ties” Really Weak? Social Capital Reliance Among Second Generation Turkish Lawyers in Paris

Authors Elif Keskiner, Ismintha Waldring
Year 2022
Book Title Revisiting Migrant Networks
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8 Book Chapter

Activating Social Capital: Steep Mobility of Descendants of Turkish Immigrants at the Top of the Corporate Business Sector

Authors Sara Rezai, Elif Keskiner
Year 2022
Book Title Revisiting Migrant Networks
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9 Book Chapter

Introduction: Revisiting Networks: Setting the Conceptual and Methodological Scene

Authors Louise Ryan, Michael Eve, Elif Keskiner
Year 2022
Book Title Revisiting Migrant Networks
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10 Book Chapter

Becoming Successful in the Business and Law Sectors: Institutional Structures and Individual Resources

Authors Elif Keskiner, Christine Lang, Ali Konyali, ...
Year 2022
Book Title New Social Mobility: Second Generation Pioneers in Europe
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11 Book Chapter

Marriage decisions of Turkish second-generation women in Strasbourg: not a fate but a refuge

Authors Elif Keskiner
Year 2020
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
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13 Journal Article

How the different policies and school systems affect the inclusion of Syrian refugee children in Sweden, Germany, Greece, Lebanon and Turkey

Authors Maurice Crul, Frans Lelie, Özge Biner, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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14 Journal Article

Chapter 5 Between Ambiguity and Ambition: Experiences of Belonging and Spatial Mobility Among Business Professionals whose Parents Migrated from Turkey

Authors Ali Konyali, Elif Keskiner
Year 2018
Book Title Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies
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16 Book Chapter

Conclusion: lessons learned from the RESL.eu project

Authors Elif Keskiner, Maurice Crul
Year 2018
Book Title Comparative Perspectives on Early School Leaving in the European Union
17 Book Chapter

Switching practices in vocational education

Authors Lore Van Praag, Elif Keskiner, Rut Van Caudenberg, ...
Year 2018
Book Title Comparative Perspectives on Early School Leaving in the European Union
18 Book Chapter

Student employment among descendants of Turkish migrants in Amsterdam and Strasbourg

Authors Elif Keskiner
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Education and Work
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20 Journal Article

How to reach the top? Fields, forms of capital, and strategies in accessing leadership positions in France among descendants of migrants from Turkey

Authors Elif Keskiner, Maurice Crul
Year 2016
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
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21 Journal Article

The multiplier effect: how the accumulation of cultural and social capital explains steep upward social mobility of children of low-educated immigrants

Authors Maurice Crul, Elif Keskiner, Frans Lelie, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 7
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22 Journal Article

The upcoming new elite among children of immigrants: a cross-country and cross-sector comparison

Authors Maurice Crul, Elif Keskiner, Frans Lelie
Year 2016
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 6
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23 Journal Article

Bonding or bridging? Professional network organizations of second-generation Turks in the Netherlands and France

Authors Floris Vermeulen, Elif Keskiner
Year 2016
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 2
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24 Journal Article

Passing the torch to a new generation: Educational support types and the second generation in the Netherlands

Authors Sara Rezai, Maurice Crul, Sabine Severiens, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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25 Journal Article

Success against the Odds

Authors Philipp Schnell, Elif Keskiner, Maurice Crul
Year 2013
Journal Name Education Inquiry
27 Journal Article

The Second and Third Generation in Rotterdam: Increasing Diversity Within Diversity

Authors Frans Lelie, Maurice Crul, Elif Keskiner
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28 Book Chapter

Suggested Research

Middle‐Class Versus Working‐Class White Mothers’ Approaches to Diversity in the Netherlands

Authors Elif Keskiner, Josje Schut, Trees Pels, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Social Inclusion
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1 Journal Article
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