The research project deals with the topics gender, migration and life course and aims at putting into relation the presentation of individual-biographic “events” in the sense of processes of decision and action in the life course of female Turkish immigrants of two generations with “events” at the macro-structural level and their implications.
The research instruments cover a) expert interviews, b) qualitative native-language inquiries based on guide-line questionnaires and c) the use of an adapted version of the “life-course-calendar” for data collection within the target group. This instrument adds a level of visualisation to the oral level of the questionnaire and thus helps to grasp the complexity and multidimensional aspects in the life-course of immigrant women. This allows analysing typical cycles, status passages and events as well as identifying patterns of cycles between generations.
Findings of the project were presented in a final public workshop with representatives of the target group and representatives of politics, education, labour market and counselling. This underlines the importance of making visible aspects of female immigrant life-course and to fill the “perception gap in migration research”.
