Dr. Rosa Burç
Researcher Migration Department National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa)
E-mail: burc(at)dezim-institut.deRosa Burç is a political sociologist, who works as a research associate at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) as part of the German National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa) and the Migration Department. She is finalizing her PhD at the Center on Social Movement Studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence/Italy. She specialized in transnational orders of violence, mobilization in conflict, and political imaginaries of unprotected and stateless communities. In her comprehensive case study she focuses on Kurdish transnational mobilization.
She is an affiliated scholar of the Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research (INTERACT) at the FU Berlin. Previously, she was part of the working group "Macro Violence" at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS).
After her studies in Sociology and International Politics at SOAS, University of London, she taught at the Bonn University’s chair for comparative government. In 2023 she taught as a visiting lecturer at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg.
Research focus
- Social Movements
- (Trans)national orders of violence
- Racism
- Nationalism
- Alliances and solidarity
- Political Imaginaries
- Gender
- Ethnography