Dr. Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova

Work at ZHAW

Position at the ZHAW

Senior Researcher


www.zhaw.ch/de/linguistik/weiterbildung/detail/kurs/cas-diversitaet-inklusion-interkulturelle-kommunikation/

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Diversity, migration and diaspora
citizen-science, participatory methods of research
intergenerational transmission, memory practices, memory politics
school and education from anthropological perspective
Islamic education and Muslim youth groups
Biographic and ethnographic methods

Regional focus: Eastern Europe (former Yugoslavia, Russia, Ukraine), Switzerland

Professional milestones

2022 - current: Senior researcher, Institute of Diversity and Social Integration, School of Social Work, ZHAW;

2017 - 2021: SNF Ambizione Research Fellow, Institute of Diversity and Social Integration, School of Social Work, ZHAW;

2017: Visiting research fellow, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

2015 - 2017: Project staff and lecturer, School of Social Work, ZHAW

2017: Projekt co-head, #SwissMuslimStories (https://www.swissmuslimstories.ch/), a counter-narrative project to prevent extremism and online radicalisation, Platform "Youth and Media", Swiss Federal Social Insurance Office

2012 - 2016: Lecturer and assistant, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich

2016: Project staff, "Public deliberation, network analysis and the political inclusion of Muslims living in Switzerland, France and Britain”, Institute of Citizenship Studies, University of Geneva

2009 - 2012: PhD Student, University Priority Research Program "Asia and Europe", University of Zurich

2008 - 2010: Online editor, “Ab Imperio Network on Empire and Nationalism Studies” (http://net.abimperio.net/)

2007 - 2008: Coordinator, “Building Democracy in Multi-Ethnic Societies”, Center for Democratization of Education, Kazan State University, Russia

Educational background

2013: PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Zurich)
2007: MA in Nationalism Studies (Central European University, Budapest)
2003: MA in History (Kazan State University, Russia)

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 ongoing
• Weiterbauen im Lärm. Strategien für mehr Wohn- und Lebensqualität an lärmbelasteten Lagen / Team member / Project ongoing
• Niederschwellige Partizipation von Kindern und Jugendlichen / Project leader / Project completed
• "Second Generation" - Eine partizipative Angebotsentwicklung für Jugendliche zweiter Generation / Project leader / 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,

  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.

  2017(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.

Other publications

Diversity Cinema, ZHdK und ZHAW, Expertin
formingdiversity.zhdk.ch/journal/diversity-cinema-alltagsdiskriminierung/

Projekt #SwissMuslimStories, Online Narrative gegen Extremismus
www.swissmuslimstories.ch (unterstützt durch Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen (Plattform "Jugend und Medien"), Mercator Stiftung, Paul Schiller Stiftung, Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung, Fachstelle Integration, Kanton Zürich, Integrationskredit, Stadt Zürich, usw.)

Ethnographic film project (with Dominik Müller) “Bizim Qirim – Our Crimea": Memories and narratives of the deported Crimean Tatar population” (ongoing)

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