The Illusion of Safety: Empirical Evidence of the Fear of Crime and the Perception of Risk from a Safe City in Eskişehir/Türkiye
The Illusion of Safety: Empirical Evidence of the Fear of Crime and the Perception of Risk from a Safe City in Eskişehir/Türkiye
Alper Erdem Fuat Güllüpinar Anadolu University, Eskişehir, TürkiyeAlper Erdem is a PhD student in Sociology at Anadolu University, Institute of Graduate Studies. He completed his master’s degree in the same department. His research interests include the sociology of crime and migration. He is currently involved in a university-funded research project on the impact of fear of workplace violence on the migration motivations of healthcare professionals. He has methodological experience in quantitative research and works with SPSS and R. This article is based on his master’s thesis.Fuat Güllüpınar is Professor of Sociology at Anadolu University. He received his PhD in Sociology from Middle East Technical University in 2010. Between 2005 and 2006, he worked as a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. In 2009–2010, he was awarded the position of Visiting Student Research Collaborator by the Department of Sociology at Princeton University to conduct research at the Center for Migration and Development. His research interests include the sociology of migration, xenophobia, education and citizenship, youth and generational studies, and political ideologies in Türkiye. He has conducted extensive empirical research on citizenship and inequality; immigration and integration; racism and the new right movement in Germany; and institutional discrimination, particularly concerning the integration of Turkish youth into the education system and labor market. He has been part of several research teams employing in-depth interviews, qualitative evaluations, participant observation, and focus groups. His methodological expertise includes the “extended case method” within ethnographic research. He also contributed to a project investigating the traumatic experiences of African migrants facing discriminatory and racist attacks in Berlin. Additionally, his research in Germany explores the polarization and radicalization of Turkish youth whose reactive identities are shaped by social disadvantage and inequality.