1989 to 2017: Researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research 2001: Visiting scholar at the Maison de Science de l’Homme, Paris Visiting lecturer at various institutions, including the Institutes of Sociology at the Universi-ties of Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, and Hannover 1982-1987: Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Technical University Darmstadt and con-sultant for the Council of Europe, Strasbourg 1987: Completion of doctoral degree with a thesis entitled “Domestic Foreigners: On the So-cial Consciousness of Turkish Youths in the Federal Republic of Germany” Studied sociology and social history at the University of Munich