Janroj Keles
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- Title
- Mr.
- Occupation
- Lecturer
- Discipline(s)
- Sociology, Media Studies
- University
- London Metropolitan University and School of Arts Birkbeck, University of London
- Department
- Department of Media and Cultural Studies
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Town / City
- London
- Previous Universities
- Birkbeck College, University of London, Oxford University, Brunel University, Technical University, Berlin, University of Istanbul
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- http://www.workinglives.org/staff/current-staff/janroj-keles.cfm
- RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Media, identity and representation, nationalism, racism, minority attitudes to use of information/communication technologies, trans-national migrant communities, transnational media and transmigrants (Kurds and Turks in Germany, the UK and Sweden), media and ethnic conflicts, Kurdish - Turkish ethno-national conflict, religious identities, asylum and refugee issues, industrial relations and ME groups in the UK and visual research
Research
- Member for
- 1 year 17 weeks
1. The research aims to explore the intersection of national, transnational and local relationships and identities through media production and consumption and the role of the media in the tension between Diasporic (Cohen 1997) and transnational discourses (Faist 2000), national (and nationalist) institutions and social movements. It examines processes of media reception in three European countries (Sweden, UK, and Germany) of the Kurdish and Turkish Diaspora.
2.This ESRC-funded research project entitled “The influence of identity, ‘community’ and social networks on ethnic minority representation at work”. The research project explored the under-researched relationships between differentially racialised workers (defined in case for support) and community groups, and mainstream collective and representative organisations (i.e. trade unions) from the perspective of workers from these communities and in the context of how they accessed support for employment-related issues. PI is Dr Jane Holgate.
3.To provide the JRF with material which demonstrates to policy makers and practitioners within the UK (and beyond) the possibility of providing more effective support for those facing forced labour, and how this might best be done. The response of governments and their international organisations has focused on trafficking, rather than abuse of workers’ rights. In UK law action against forced labour has been co-incidental to the enforcement of other laws (e.g. immigration regulation or licensing of Gangmasters). Developing “a combined labour and criminal justice approach” (Skrivankova 2010) requires study of how forced labour has been approached in practice elsewhere in Europe, including what means of support are made available to those wishing to resist on their own behalf. A highly expert group of researchers will examine national regulations, laws and practices, in the political and economic contexts of each of nine EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands and Sweden).