The Heinrich Böll Foundation welcomes Nurten Karakas, who will be working as a 'Heinrich Böll Junior Fellow' at the German Marshall Fund this fall.
Karakas will focus on transatlantic comparison of discrimination of minority teachers in U.S. and German schools. Karakas has been an Heinrich Böll Stiftung doctoral scholarship holder since April 2011. In her doctoral work, she focuses on the discrimination of teachers with migration background in German schools. She is a post-graduate student of the European Sokrates-Sponsored Programme International Doctoral Studies in Social Work (INDOSOW).
Karakas will complete her fellowship in Washington, DC, from September 15 to December 15. During this time, she will be part of the Immigration and Integration program at GMF, and has the opportunity to access GMF’s network of immigration and integration experts. She will write a short paper concerning her research topic, which will be published in connection with the fellowship.