About the Person 

Main Research Areas

• Qualitative research in the sociology of transmigration focusing on people of Turkish origin

• Far-right extremism, far-right terrorism (with qualitative methods) using the example of the Hanau terrorist

  • Analysis of letters of confession (using the example of the Hanau terrorist)

  • Survivors of far-right terrorism

• Antisemitism and antimuslim Racism

• Qualitative-reconstructive methods of social research (interviews, interpretation & research ethics)

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About the Person

Fatih Bahadır Kaya is researching in the above mentioned field of inquiry. After completing his master's degree in sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich (2021), he has been pursuing his PhD as an Avicenna-Studienwerk fellow in the research training group “Jewish-Muslim lifeworlds from a social science perspective” ant Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) since June 2022. Thesis project (tentative title): “Muslim-Jewish subjects' experiences of racism and discrimination. A reconstructive study on the development of circular coping strategies”.

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In 2022, he published the study “Das Bekennerschreiben” on the Hanau assassin, in which he examines, among other things, the questions of whether it was an isolated case and which structures of meaning motivated the perpetrator to carry out the terrorist attack. The analysis goes beyond these aspects by abstracting structural features and mentalities of the “new far-right milieu” from the concrete confession letter under the premises of objective hermeneutics and providing empirical evidence.

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In 2024, he published another study (“The survivors of far-right terror”). This is the first study to explore the biographies and lifeworlds of survivors who have lost their loved ones (children, parents, family members, etc.) as a result of a far-right terrorist attack in Germany. The focus of the research extends over three decades. The study focuses on the perspective of the bereaved, how they perceived and dealt with the day of the far-right terror attack and the subsequent investigation process. In particular, the biographical, habitual and memory-related injuries and changes evoked by far-right terrorist violence are examined.