Dr. Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova

Work at ZHAW

Position

Senior Researcher and Lecturer

Focus

• Migration, Refugee studies, trasnationalism
• Descendants of migrants, second generation
• Transmission, memory, narrative
• Diversity, discrimination and racism
• Education, school, and non-formal education
• Islam, Islamic education and youth
• Biographic-narrative, ethnographic and participatory methods
• Participatory research, action research, science and arts

Experience

• Senior researcher and lecturer
  School of Social Work, ZHAW
  02 / 2022 - today
• SNF Ambizione Fellow
  School of Social Work, ZHAW
  10 / 2017 - 01 / 2022
• Visiting research fellow
  Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
  01 / 2017 - 02 / 2017
• Research associate
  Institute of Citizenship Studies, University of Geneva
  01 / 2016 - 12 / 2016
• Lecturer and assistant
  Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich
  08 / 2012 - 06 / 2016
• Research associate
  School of Social Work, ZHAW
  01 / 2015 - 12 / 2015
• PhD Student, University Priority Research Program "Asia and Europe"
  University of Zurich
  01 / 2009 - 12 / 2012
• Project coordinator
  “Building Democracy in Multi-Ethnic Societies”, Center for Democratization of Education, Kazan State University, Tatarstan, Russia
  01 / 2007 - 08 / 2008

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Social Anthropology
  University of Zurich
  01 / 2009 - 03 / 2013
• Master of Arts / Nationalism Studies
  Central European University
  09 / 2006 - 08 / 2007
• Master of Arts / History
  Kazan State University
  09 / 1998 - 08 / 2003

Continuing Education

Regional Seminars for Excellence in Teaching
Anthropological Approaches to Religion and Secularism
08 / 2013

Network

Media presence

• expert and discussant, Human Rights Film Festival, Zurich (2017, 2021, 2024)
• Invited expert, Diversity Cinema (ZHdK und ZHAW)
• Radio SRF 1: “Antworten auf Terror: Hörer diskutieren mit Experten”, 2015

Projects

• Hypervulnerability and Agency / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• The Unprivileged Migrant Descendants: The Life-Course and Transition to Adulthood / Team member / Project ongoing
• Displaced persons from Ukraine in the canton of Zurich: a monitoring study / Team member / Project completed
• Niederschwellige Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen / Project leader / Project completed
• "Second Generation" - Eine partizipative Angebotsentwicklung für Jugendliche zweiter Generation / Project leader / Project completed
• Weiterbauen im Lärm. Strategien für mehr Wohn- und Lebensqualität an lärmbelasteten Lagen / Team member / Project completed
• Dealing with the violent past in the diaspora / Project leader / Project completed
• Kindgerechte Unterbringung und Betreuung von unbegleiteten minderjährigen Asylsuchenden in den Zentren des Bundes / Team member / Project completed
• Background to jihadist radicalisation in Switzerland / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2024.

  Biography, belonging and legacies of the Yugoslav disintegration wars in the lives of postmigrant youth in Switzerland.

  Ethnic and Racial Studies.

  47(2), pp. 344-366.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2261292

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2024.

  Remembering and dealing with violent past : diasporic experiences and transnational dimensions.

  Ethnic and Racial Studies.

  47(2), pp. 259-273.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2260882

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2023.

  Shadows of the past : violent conflict and its repercussions for second-generation Bosnians in the diaspora.

  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

  49(7), pp. 1786-1802.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1973392

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2020.

  Engaging with the country of origin and its past amongst second-generation youth of Bosnian descent in Switzerland.

  GISo : Gesellschaft - Individuum - Sozialisation. Zeitschrift für Sozialisationsforschung.

  1(2), pp. 1-15.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.26043/GISo.2020.2.3

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2018.

  Between regionalisation and centralisation : the implications of Russian education reforms for schooling in Tatarstan.

  Europe Asia Studies.

  70(1), pp. 53-74.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2017.1413171

• Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2018.

  Creative cultural production and ethnocultural revitalization among minority groups in Russia.

  Cultural Studies.

  32(5), pp. 825-851.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2018.1429004

• Laketa, Suncana; Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2017.

  Enacting the contested past : conflict narratives in educational spaces.

  Geographica Helvetica.

  72(1), pp. 5-16.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-5-2017

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara; Müller, Dominik,

  2017.

  Muslimische Organisationen in der Schweiz im Spannungsfeld der Debatte um religiös begründete Radikalisierung.

  Migration und Soziale Arbeit.

  2017(3), pp. 249-257.

  Available from: https://content-select.com/de/portal/media/view/5a287cc7-42bc-486d-b838-1977b0dd2d03

• Eser Davolio, Miryam; Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara; Müller, Dominik,

  2017.

  Spannungsfelder im Umgang mit dem Phänomen dschihadistischer Radikalisierung im Schweizer Kontext : ein neues Handlungsfeld für die Soziale Arbeit?.

  Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziale Arbeit.

  (21/22), pp. 13-30.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-832417

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2015.

  Islam as moral education : madrasa courses and contestation of the secular in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

  Religion, State and Society.

  43(2), pp. 150-167.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2015.1056639

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2020.

  Pedagogies of culture : schooling and identity in Post-Soviet Tatarstan, Russia.

  Cham:

  Palgrave Macmillan.

  ISBN 978-3-030-27244-9.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27245-6

• Milivojevic, Mirko; Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2022.

  (Post)-Yugoslav memory travels : national and transnational dimensions

  .

  In:

  Krawatzek, Félix; Friess, Nina, eds.,

  Youth and Memory in Europe: Defining the Past, Shaping the Future.

  Boston:

  De Gruyter.

  pp. 181-190.

  Media and Cultural Memory ; 34.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733501-013

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2022.

  “I am something that no longer exists ...” : Yugonostalgia among diaspora youth

  .

  In:

  Krawatzek, Félix; Friess, Nina, eds.,

  Youth and Memory in Europe: Defining the Past, Shaping the Future.

  Boston:

  De Gruyter.

  pp. 191-204.

  Media and Cultural Memory ; 34.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733501-014

• Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2018.

  'I'm only half!' : schooling and strategies of belonging among adolescents from minority ethnic backgrounds in Russia

  .

  In:

  Polese, Abel, ed.,

  Informal nationalism after communism : the everyday construction of post-socialist identities.

  London:

  I.B.Tauris.

  pp. 17-35.

  International library of historical studies ; 111.

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2015.

  Islamic education, youth and local religious revival in post-soviet Tatarstan, Russia

  .

  In:

  Conermann, Stephan; Smolarz, Elena, eds.,

  Mobilizing Religion: Networks and Mobility.

  Berlin:

  EB-Verlag.

  pp. 265-286.

  Bonner Asienstudien ; 12.

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara; Frigo-Charles, Olivia; Pizzera, Michele; Muri Koller, Gabriela; Kehl, Konstantin; Nef, Susanne,

  2023.

  Wie kann die Kinder- und Jugendpolitik der Kantone die niederschwellige Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen unterstützen?.

  Zürich:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28772

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2023.

  «Da fehlt in der Geschichte etwas ...» : (Un)sichtbarkeit und Repräsentation im schulischen Raum aus postmigrantischer Perspektive [paper].

  In:

  Macht- und ungleichheitskritische Perspektiven auf Bildung – Erkenntnisse und Suchbewegungen der empirischen Forschung, Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich, Schweiz, 25. Mai 2023.

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara; Adili, Kushtrim,

  2023.

  Second Generation : ein partizipatives Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt mit Zuger Jugendlichen.

  Zürich:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29166

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2022.

  Liebe Eltern, erzählt uns vom Krieg.

  Sozial : Magazin der ZHAW Soziale Arbeit.

  (17), pp. 13-17.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25925

• Mey, Eva; Keller, Samuel; Adili, Kushtrim; Bombach, Clara; Eser Davolio, Mirjam; Gehrig, Milena; Kehl, Konstantin; Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara; et al.,

  2019.

  Evaluation des UMA-Pilotprojektes : Befunde zur kindes- und altersgerechten Unterbringung und Betreuung von unbegleiteten minderjährigen Asylsuchenden in den Zentren des Bundes.

  Zürich:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21875

• Müller, Dominik; Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara; Eser Davolio, Miryam,

  2017.

  Dschihadismus online : narrative Strategien, Herausforderungen für muslimische Organisationen und Stossrichtungen für Präventionsprojekte

  .

  In:

  Hohnstein, Sally; Herding, Maruta, eds.,

  Digitale Medien und politisch-weltanschaulicher Extremismus im Jugendalter.

  Halle (Saale):

  Deutsches Jugendinstitut.

  pp. 83-107.

  Schriftenreihe der AFS ; 13.

  Available from: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-89569

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2022.

  Der lange Schatten des Krieges : Auswirkungen auf junge Menschen.

  In:

  Veranstaltungsreihe «Um 6 im Kreis 5», Zürich, Schweiz, 4. Oktober 2022.

  Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXc0dtE8E7k

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2021.

  Memories of violence in the diaspora : transnational and intergenerational dimensions.

  In:

  15th International Interdisciplinary Conference "Comparative Studies in Modern Society; Balkans in European and Global Context", Prizren, Kosovo, 19-20 March 2021.

• Mey, Eva; Keller, Samuel; Bombach, Clara; Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara; et al.,

  2020.

  Im Vakuum fällt auch das Sprechen schwer : Reflexionen zu empirischen Annäherungen an Sichtweisen minderjähriger Geflüchteter und Fachpersonen in Bundesasylzentren.

  In:

  Internationale Tagung «Kindheit und Adoleszenz in Bewegung - Aufwachsen unter Bedingungen von Fluchmigration», online, 17. - 18. November 2020.

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2020.

  “I am something that no longer exists…” : longing for Yugoslavia among the youth of ex-Yugoslav descent in Switzerland.

  In:

  Memory as a Dialogue? History for Young People, Online, 9-11 September 2020.

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara; Scherer, Mareike,

  2020.

  The meanings of the difficult past : homeland conflict and second-generation youth in Switzerland.

  In:

  16th EASA Biennial Conference, Online, 20-24 July 2020.

• Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara,

  2019.

  Engaging with the homeland and remembering the past among second generation Bosnians in Switzerland.

  In:

  Migration. Erinnern. Praktiken des Erzählens und Erinnerns in der Migrationsgesellschaft : Internationale Fachtagung, Zürich, 24.-25. Oktober 2019.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Tatar groups in Vkontakte: The interplay between ethnic and virtual identities on social networking sites, in Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media, vol. 1, no.2, 2009.
• International Language Rights Norms in the Dispute over Latinization Reform in the Republic of Tatarstan, in Caucasian Review of International Affairs, vol. 4, no.1, 2010
• “'Bizim Qirim – Our Crimea': Memories and narratives of the deported Crimean Tatar population”. Ethnographic documentary about the memories of deportation and political situation of the Crimean Tatars, 2014.
• Website #SwissMuslimStories. The project shows in a short film format variety of life-trajectories and personalities of young Swiss people of Muslim background
• The census as a topic in the Tatar-language press, in Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the post-Soviet space, no. 4, 2010.

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