"I am convinced that no one is better suited for this task than Yasemin Karaka?o?lu. The University of Bremen benefits enormously from her expertise, including in the fields of participation, diversity, and anti-racism. She is also already active in an advisory capacity on the state and federal levels, in addition to her role as a researcher. I therefore congratulate both sides on her appointment to the Council of Experts on Anti-Racism," says University President Professor Jutta Günther.

The Council of Experts on Anti-Racism was established by the Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Racism, Minister of State Reem Alabali-Radovan, and consists of twelve members from academia, administration, and practical fields. The committee is to develop proposals for an effective, sustainable anti-racism policy, in particular to combat structural and institutional racism, and to support the work of the anti-racism commissioner. The Council of Experts on Anti-Racism advises the Minister of State, for example, on the development of a definition of racism within administration.

Professor Yasemin Karaka?o?lu has been lecturing at the University of Bremen since 2004. Her areas of focus include educational inequality in migration societies, transnationality, and racism-critical perspectives in school development and teacher education. Yasemin Karaka?o?lu is very interested in academic policy consultancy. For example, she was a member of the Federal Youth Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2009 and a member of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Migration and Integration from 2008 to 2016. From 2019 to 2021, she was chairperson of the Council for Migration e.V., an interdisciplinary association of 190 critical migration researchers. Her doctorate, for which she received the Augsburg Science Award for Intercultural Studies in 2000, was the basis for the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court in 2003 in the so-called headscarf ruling. In 2021, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her special commitment to coexistence in Germany.

Further Information:

https://www.integrationsbeauftragte.de/ib-de/staatsministerin/expert-innenrat-2194024 (in German only)

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karaka?o?lu
Head of Intercultural Education
University of Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-69020
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