Gendered Mobilities of Central Asian Females in Germany through the Perspectives of Public Transport

Aiming to remedy the lacuna in the interdisciplinary mobility and migration literature, the main objective of the present research project is to examine Central Asian migrant women in Berlin through their commuting experience on public transport. Dr. Cholpon Turdalieva aims to address several issues and questions: To what extent is Central Asian women's integration in the host city influenced by daily commuting on different modes of public transit? How are women's employment, studying, income, and kinship networks realized or imposed in Germany's ethnocultural communities and other diverse multiethnic groups?

Following these questions, Turdalieva's research will be geared to produce academic and practical insights into the intersection of gendered mobility, migration, and public transit. We argue that Central Asian women migrants realize their socio-economic, educational, professional, and other personal and public goals in Germany by navigating their mobility, presumably through public transit transport. In this vein, we may think that automobility technologies, particularly the well-developed public transit in Berlin, empower Central-Asian migrant women by allowing them to move through different public spaces and traverse physical and social boundaries with greater ease and practice.

Cholpon Turdalieva is a Professor in Anthropology Program at American University of Central Asia. In 2004-05, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington; in 2004-2008, she became an OSI Fellow and researched the Western travel literature about Central Asia. During 2016-2012, she was a recipient of the Volkswagen Foundation grant and defended her PhD dissertation at Humboldt University. Currently, she is doing her research on “Gendered Mobilities of Central Asian Females in Germany through the Perspectives of Public Transport”. This research is supported by the OSUN Sabbatical Fellowship Program.

This presentation is part of the Faculty Colloquium Series.

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Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: P24 Seminar Room 8

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