Hakan Gurcan Sicakkan
førsteamanuensis
Institutt for sammenliknende politikk
Hjemmeside: http://eurospheres.org
Stilling: førsteamanuensis
Telefon: 55 58 20 07
Mobiltelefon: 480 14 166 SMS
E-post: Hakan.Sicakkan@isp.uib.no
Besøksadresse: 15.215A
Romnummer: Christiesgate 15, Bergen
Fields
Comparative Politics; Political Theory; Comparative Methods
Themes
Citizenship; Public Sphere; Political Boundaries; Europeanization and Globalization; Politics of Diversity, Mobility, and Identity; Diversity Theory and Methodology
Regional Focus
Europe and the European Union
Current Research Interest
- Development of the EU political system (EU institutions, multi-level governance, EU-citizenship, mobility of persons, European identity, European Public Sphere)
- European integration processes (emerging trans-European party systems, trans-European networks of civil society organizations, trans-European networks of think tanks)
- European countries' institutions, laws and policies on citizenship, integration, immigration, refugeehood, and political asylum
Positions
- 2009-> Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Politics, UiB
- 2007-2009 Research Leader, Unifob Global, Unifob AS
- 2007-2009 Associate Professor II, Department of Comparative Politics, UiB
- 2002-2006 Researcher, IMER UiB, Center for Development Studies, UiB
- 1998-2002 Research Fellow, Department of Comparative Politics, UiB
- 1997-1998 Research Assistant, IMER N/B, Centre for Social Research, UiB
Research & Project Leadership
- 2007-2012 International Scientific Director of the Integrated Project EUROSPHERE -funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme
- 2007-2012 Leader of the Project "Europeanization of the Norwegian Public Sphere in a Comparative Perspective" – funded by the Norwegian Research Council
- 2002-2004 International Scientific Coordinator of the Accompanying Measure Project GLOCALMIG - funded by the EU 5th Framework Programme
Editorial Work
- 2010 -> Co-editor in Chief Nordic Journal of Migration Research
- 2007 -> Editorial Board Member EUROSPHERE Online Series
- 2006-2010 Co-Editor in Chief Norwegian Journal of Migration Research
- 2002–2005 Editorial Board Member Norwegian Journal of Migration Research
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2002-2010 Reviewer for the international journals European Union Politics, American Political Science Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Citizenship Studies, Journal of European Legacy, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Nordic Journal of Human Rights
International / National Committees and Networks
- 2012 -> Norwegian Center for Minority Health Research (NAKMI -Nasjonal kompetanseenhet for minoritetshelse), Member of NAKMI Board (UiB representative)
- 2010 -> Schengen European Integration Award (SEINA), Member of the International Jury of the Schengen Awards
- 2010 -> European Consortium for Political Reseaerch (ECPR), Member of the ECPR Council / Official Representative of the University of Bergen
- 2008 -> The Future Citizenship Network, Member
- 2007 -> EUROSPHERE International Network, Chair
- 2006 -> Project evaluator in various EU Expert Panels in FP6 and FP7 of the European Union
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2001 OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities - Expert Group Member on Issues of citizenship and national minorities
Diplomas / Certificates
- 2012 University Pedagogy Course Certificate, UiB
- 2008 Research Leader Course Certificate, Unifob AS / UiB
- 2006 Dr.Polit in Comparative Politics, UiB
- 1997 Cand.Polit in Comparative Politics, UiB
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1994 Cand.Mag in Social Sciences, UiB
Research Grants
- 2007 Norwegian Research Council Grant for management of EUROSPHERE
- 2006 EU FP6 Grant for international coordination of an Integrated Project – EUROSPHERE
- 2003 EU FP5 Grant for international coordination of an Accompanying Measure Project – GLOCALMIG
- 2002 Norwegian Research Council grant for post.doc. fellowship
- 2001 Norwegian Research Council Grant for Overseas Visiting Fellowship
- 2000 Turkish Psychology Association Grant for an International Symposium
- 2000 Aegean University Grant for Organizing an International Symposium
- 2000 Meltzer’s Fund Overseas Research Grant
- 1999 Social Sciences Faculty Grant for Organizing an International Doctoral Research Course
- 1999 Norwegian Research Council Grant for Overseas Visiting Lecturership
- 1998 EU-TMR Grant for Participation in EU Doctoral Research Courses
- 1998 Norwegian Research Council Scholarship for Dr.Polit. Research
- 1997 UiB Social Sciences Faculty Grant for Pre-doctoral Project
- 1996 UiB Comparative Politics Department Grant for Overseas Research
Books
- 2008 Do Our Citizenship Requirements Impede the Protection of Political Asylum Seekers? A Comparative Analysis of European Practices. Edwin Mellen Press, New York.
- 2006 What Happens When a Society is Diverse? Exploring Multidimensional Identities. Studies in Political Science 30. The Edwin Mellen Press, New York. (med Y. Lithman).
- 2005 – Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State. Political Theory and the Politics of Diversity. Sociology Series. New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. (med Y. Lithman).
- 2004 - Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship. Glocalization and Participation Dilemmas in EU and Small States. Community Research, EUR 23143, Brussels: European Commission.
- 2004 – Standardized Research Tools for Data Collection, Data Analysis, Measuring the Quality of Citizenships in European Countries. Glocalmig-Series Vol.1. Bergen: BRIC.
- 2004 – Belonging and the Quality of Citizenships: A Comparative Study of Six European Countries. Glocalmig Series Vol. 8. Bergen: BRIC.
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
- 2012 – The French Republican Model, the European Diversity Perspective and the European Public Sphere. Social Science Information 51(3) (with Wanda Dressler, Artan Fuga, Veronica Mitroi, Liza Terrazzoni).
- 2012 – Diversity, Polity and the European Public Sphere. Javnost-The Public 19(1): 5-18.
- 2012 – Trans-Europeanizing Public Spaces in Europe. Javnost-The Public, 19(1): 103-124.
- 2008 – Political Asylum and Sovereignty Sharing in Europe. Government and Opposition 43(2): 206-29.
- 2006 – Mangfold og den offentlige sfære (Diversity and the Public Sphere). Stat & Styring 16(3): 45-49.
- 2005 – Foreword to Journal Special Issue on “Minorities, Minority Politics, and the European Union”. Norwegian Journal of Migration Research 5(2):7-9.
- 2005 – Senses That Make Noise & Noises That Make Sense. Three Techniques for Scaling Attitudes to Immigration. Norwegian Journal of Migration Research, 5(1): 42-73.
- 2004 – The Modern State, the Citizen and the Perilous Refugee. Journal of Human Rights 3(4): 445-463.
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2003 – Politics, Wisdom and Diversity. Or Why I don’t want to be tolerated. Norwegian Journal of Migration Research, 2003(1): 32-44.
Articles in Refereed Paper Series
- 2009 – Measuring Attidues to Immigrants with Diversity Methodology. EUROSPHERE Paper Series 19(09).
- 2008 – Positioning the Diversity Perspective. EUROSPHERE Paper Series 1(08).
- 2008 – The Boundaries of Political Rights in Europe. EUROSPHERE Paper Series 4(08).
- 2008 – Political Asylum and the Multi-Level, Plural Forms of Sovereignty in Europe. EUROSPHERE Paper Series 7(08).
- 2005 – How is A Diverse European Society Possible? An Exploration into New Public Spaces in Six European Countries. AMID Working Paper Series. Aalborg: University of Aalborg.
Articles in Edited Books
- 2011 – "The Rights of Refugees" in Cushman, Thomas (ed.) Handbook of Human Rights, Routledge, London.
- 2006 – “Glocal Spaces as Prototypes of a Future Diverse Society: An Exploratory Study in Six European Countries” in Sicakkan&Lithman What Happens When a Society is Diverse? (pp.105-148)
- 2006 – “Diversity and Multidimensional Identities” in Sicakkan&Lithman (eds) What Happens When a Society is Diverse? (pp.1-12) .
- 2005 – “State Formation, Nation Building and Citizenship in Modern West European History” in Sicakkan&Lithman (eds) Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State (pp.37-62)
- 2005 – “Politics of Identity and Modes of Belonging. An Overview of the Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges” in Sicakkan&Lithman (eds) Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State ” (pp.1-36)
- 2005 – “Theorizing Identity Politics, Belonging Modes and Citizenship” in Sicakkan&Lithman (eds) Changing the Basis of Citizenship in the Modern State (pp. 197-226)
- 2000- “Turkish Republicanism in the Light of Citizenship and Political Identity Models”, in Bilgin, Nuri, (ed.) Demokrasi, Yurttaslik ve Kimlik Baglaminda Cumhuriyet. Izmir: Aegean University Press (pp.188-201)
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1996 – “Three Models of Alien in Political Theory. An Evaluation of the Methodological and Conceptual Tools Provided by Fredrik Barth and Stein Rokkan” in J.C. Knudsen (ed.) Equality and Exclusion: Challenges for Migration Research. Nordic Council of Ministers. Copenhagen: TemaNord (pp.153-165).
Scientific Reports
- 2008 – Eurosphere Periodic Report – I. “Executive Summary, Objectives and Achievements in Research and Management Issues”. Scientific report submitted to the European Commission DG-Research, Unifob Global/University of Bergen.
- 2004 – Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship: Glocalmig Final Report. Glocalmig Deliverable no.10. Scientific report submitted to the European Commission DG-Research. IMER N/B, Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen.
- 2003 – Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship: Six Country Reports. Glocalmig Deliverables no.4-9. Scientific report submitted to the European Commission DG-Research. IMER N/B, Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen.
- 2003 – Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship: An Introduction to QC-CITBASE. An Overview of the Dimensions in Glocalmig's Database. Glocalmig Deliverable No.3. Scientific report submitted to the European Commission DG-Research. IMER N/B, Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen.
- 2003 – Migrants, Minorities, Belongings and Citizenship: Glocalmig Research Tools. Glocalmig Deliverables No.1-2. Scientific report submitted to the European Commission DG-Research. IMER N/B, Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen.
- 1999 – Senses That Make Noise & Noises That Make Sense: Three Techniques for Scaling Norwegian Responses to Immigration: A Comparison of Results from Applications of Mokken, Factor and Cluster-Discrimant Models, Bergen: IMER N/B Publications.
- 1999 – The Political-Historical Roots of West European Models of Citizen and Alien: An Application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis on Macro Historical Data, Bergen: IMER N/B Publications.
- 1998 – Rasisme mellom kommunitarisme og republikanisme: En kvantitativ analyse av holdninger til innvandrere i Hordaland/Norge, Bergen: IMER N/B Publications.
Courses taught:
Supervised PhD Theses
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PhD Candidate |
End Year |
Discipline |
Role |
Title/Theme of the PhD Thesis |
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Pamir, Mete |
2011 |
Comparative Politics |
Main Supervisor |
Remapping Ottoman Modernity: Civilizational Theory and State Formation |
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Folkestad, Bjarte |
2012 |
Comparative Politics |
Co-Supervisor |
What is Euroscepticism and why are parties Euro-sceptical? |
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Perez, Marybel |
2013 |
Comparative Politics |
Main supervisor |
National and European Think Tanks as Policy Actors in the European Public Sphere |
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Bygnes, Susanne |
2013 |
Sociology |
Co-supervisor |
Challenging “the National” in Perspectives on Diversity |
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Tønnevold, Camilla |
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Media Studies |
Co-supervisor |
National Media and Public Debate on Citizenship and Integration in a Multicultural Europe |
Sampol 350- Supervised MA Theses in Comparative Politics
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Student |
Year |
Title of the Master Thesis |
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Kveinen, Else |
2000
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Beyond external exclusion? An analysis of normative and ontological reflections on territorial exclusion in the modern states-system and the European Union |
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Surhke, Ida |
2001 |
Equal and different: politics of integration and Muslim requests for recognition in Norway |
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Bentsen, Anne Cecilie |
2007 |
Strategisk tilpasning eller vedvarende sosial-isering? En analyse av effekten av påvirkning fra OSSE, Europarådet og EU på latvisk minoritetspolitikk fra 1991 til 2006 |
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Kjellevold, Silje |
2009 |
Immigrasjon og integrasjon i Europa |
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Ryssedal, Ingvild |
2010 |
Vinnarar og taparar i europeisk integrasjon? Ein analyse av regionalpolitikken i EU sin innverknad på økonomi og velstandsutviklinga i Polen |
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Vatnehol, Alice Jeanette |
2010 |
A Time of Change? A Comparative Analysis of the EU’s Influence on Minority Rights in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania |
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Fiksdal, Iver |
2011 |
"It's not about winning, it's about participating". Uncovering the determinants of regional participation in the policy-making structures of the European Union |
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Holte, Magnus |
2011 |
Med én fot innenfor: hvordan norske interesseaktører jobber i Brussel |
EUROSPHERE - Diversity and the European Public Sphere. Towards a Citizens' Europe (FP6)
EUROSPHERE is an integrated project funded within the European Union's 6th Framework Programme.
The declining level of citizens’ involvement in EU political structures and processes is a challenge for the legitimacy of the European Union and its political institutions. This situation elevates an urgent need to identify appropriate and innovative forms of public sphere that promote the political involvement of European citizens.
Against this background, Eurosphere seeks to develop new perspectives about European public spheres and identify the factors that facilitate or hinder the articulation of inclusive European public spheres. Public spheres are understood as different networks, arenas and spaces of communication and interaction where political institutions, social and political actors, and citizens meet and interact with each other. In this connection, focus is specifically be on political parties, social movements, think tanks, and media as well as the specific forms and spaces of interaction these actors create.
The research team also aims to define areas of contestation and conflict in politicians’ attempts to develop new public spheres. This will be done in connection with assessments of the feasibility of five different models of such social arenas and the feasibility of supranational strategies for articulating diverse European public spheres.
The research plan comprises synchronized data collection in 16 countries, comparative data analysis and assessment activities as well as the creation of a Eurosphere Knowledge Base with data and findings on the condition of the European Public Sphere and European Citizenship, and a large collection of academic publications.
In addition to research activities, Eurosphere will initiate two policy-targeted sessions called Euro Forums and organize four international conferences. It will also organise training programmes for young researchers participating in Eurosphere research, as well as summer courses for junior researchers about Eurosphere’s theories, methods, and results in order to create an impact beyond the duration of the project.
The Eurosphere consortium comprises about 150 researchers from 17 universities and research institutes from 16 countries across Europe. The five-year project is funded with €4,1 mill. (NOK33 mill.) by the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The project is also supported by the Norwegian Research Council (NOK6 Mill) and the University of Bergen (two PhD scholarships and additional personnel resources).
Principal Partners
EUROELITES - Europeanization of the Norwegian Public Sphere
This project is a local extension of Eurosphere. It is co-funded by the Norwegian Research Council, the University of Bergen, and the Social Sciences Faculty. By extending the Norwegian part of Eurosphere, the aim is to assess how selected Norwegian social and political actors participate in and attempt to influence the debates in and about the European public sphere as well as how “European” they themselves become in this process. This project involves four PhD-projects:
1. Bjarte Folkestad’s doctoral project is ‘Political Parties and Europe: A Study of Euroscepticism in Nordic and Central Eastern European political parties’. An important question he will answer is why some political parties are eurosceptic, and the consequences of political parties’ euroscepticism for the development of a European public sphere.
2. Camilla M. Tønnevold's doctoral project "National media and public debate on citizenship and integration in a multicultural Europe” concentrates on what contributions the national media offer as a social actor on a European level with respect to the 'hot topics' of Europe and its nation-states: immigration policies, citizenship and belonging.
3. Susanne Bygnes will in her doctoral project investigate to what degree different approaches to diversity influence the boundary work of social movements in the relation to the national and the EU: can some perspectives on, and practices of, diversity systematically be tied to certain visions of Norway as a nation state or a part of a European community?
4. Marybel Perez will in her doctoral project examine cohabitation models advocated by think tanks interested in influencing EU agenda identity formation and immigration. This research considers think tanks to be reflection on how European citizens and institutions feel about diversity and immigration and to play a key role in the construction of the coexistence model in the EU.
All these PhD-projects constitute a new, larger project which will develop parallel with the Eurosphere research. This project shares personnel resources with Eurosphere for nine months during the data collection phase, and after data collection, they go their own ways in order to answer their own research questions with their own resources.
People
QUO VADIS, EUROPE?
The main pbjective of this international collaborative project is to bring together students, Ph.D. students, researchers and experts from 3 European countries (Slovakia, Iceland and Norway) and perform thorough research in the field of economic, political and cultural future of European continent. The output of such cooperation should enrich the scientific knowledge and lead to preparing a joint scientific publication. Each partner is expected to participate with a group of 10 people, consisting of 4 students, 4 PhD. students and 2 professors or any other balanced combination totaling 10. The students should be chosen in an essay writing contest open to all students of the participating institutions. The project will consist of 3 interconnected phases: Stability, Prosperity and Culture. Each of these phases will begin with consultations and will culminate with a workshop and international conference hosted by one of the partner universities. Each phase can be divided as follows:
PRELIMINARY STAGE: defining questions, online consultations, creating and comparing positions, studying and exchanging information on the topic
WORKSHOP: building mixed teams, discussing the topic in panels, creating optimistic, neutral and pessimistic scenarios on the development of the topic
STAGE OF EVALUATION: providing feedback, discussing the outcome of cooperation, preparing studies to be published After concluding all the phases the project will culminate by publishing an international study on the topic.
The project is coordinated by The Faculty of International Relations in Bratislava. The other two partners are University of Akureyri (Iceland) and the University of Bergen. The local coordinators at the University of Bergen are Hakan G. Sicakkan and Kjersti Fløttum.
Project Participants from UiB
Academic Staff
- Prof. Kjersti Fløttum
- Assoc.Prof. Hakan G. Sicakkan
PhD Candidates
- Mr Himanshu Ardawatia
- Ms Susanne Bygnes
- Ms Agnese Cimdina
- Mr Espen Dale
- Mr Bjarte Folkestad
- Mr Acar Kutay
- Ms Marybel Perez
- Ms Camilla Tønnevold
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
The Board of Nordic Migration Research and the Norwegian Journal of Migration Research have agreed that, starting in 2010, NTMF becomes Nordic, undergoes a name-change to Nordic Journal of Migration Research, and will from then on be published by NMR as an English-only, peer-reviewed international journal.
The new Journal will publish high-quality research in the areas of migration theory and empirically-oriented analyses of migratory processes, integration policies and intercultural relations. It will give high priority to Nordic issues and comparative studies of integration in Nordic and non-Nordic countries. It will occasionally publish guest-edited Special Issues devoted to particular themes or theoretical problems.
The new Nordic journal will publish up to four issues a year. From 1 August 2009, we will accept articles in English with a view to publishing them in the new Nordic journal. Articles in English that have been submitted to NTMF and are still in process by the end of 2009, will be transferred to the pool of articles reviewed by the editorial board of the NMR Journal.
Membership of NMR comprises a subscription to the NMR Journal.
Professor Ulf Hedetoft (University of Copenhagen) and Associate Professor Hakan G. Sicakkan (University of Bergen) are Editors-in-Chief of the new Nordic Journal.