Elif Keskiner

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Elif Keskiner has completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science and International Relations in Bogazici University, Turkey. Elif Keskiner is the senior researcher in the BaM project. As a sociologist, she is trained both in quantitative and qualitative methods and she has significant experience in international comparative research. She received her PhD from University of Amsterdam where she studied the youth transitions of descendants of Turkish migrants living in Strasbourg and Amsterdam. Her study uncovered distinct transition patterns among Turkish second generation and highlighted the importance of capital development across distinct institutional settings. Later in her post-doc projects she continued to work on comparative international projects such as the ELITES project and the RESL.eu project, where she pursued her interests in forms of capital and youth transitions. She has published on a wide range of subjects in sociology such as youth sociology, transition pathways, capital theory, and intersections of social class, ethnicity and gender in urban settings.