Youth Transitions among Descendants of Turkish Immigrants in Amsterdam and Strasbourg:

Elif Keskiner is a post-doc Researcher in Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has conducted her PhD in University of Amsterdam on youth transitions among descendants of migrants in the Netherlands and France where she conducted a comparative mixed methods study. In her research she combined the strengths of youth sociology and ethnic migration studies. She worked as a Post-doc researcher in ELITES project studying the educational attainment and labour market incorporation of descendants of migrants who have achieved leading positions. As a post-doc she coordinated the international qualitative fieldwork in four countries. Since 2013 she is working also a post-doc researcher in Reducing Early School Leavers in EU project where she has coordinated the collection of a large scale survey among young people next to conducting qualitative research and executing management tasks. In this study she again works in the youth sociology concentrating on young people who run the risk of dropping outof education. As a sociologist she is trained both in quantitative and qualitative methods and she has significant experience in mixed methods studies. She has also worked in various cross-country research projects and achieved a strong competence in comparative research. Her research interests cover a wide range of subjects in sociology such as youth transitions, descendants of migrants, labour market incorporation and educational attainment.

• Chapter 1: Youth Transitions of Descendants of Turkish Migrant.- Chapter 2: Prolonged Transitions: Early Tracking and its Implications for Transitions.- Chapter 3: Blurring of the Transition Point: Combining Work and Study.- Chapter 4: Transitions Decisions: Intersections of Social class, Gender and Ethnicity.- Chapter 5: A Typology of Transition Trajectories.- Conclusion: Developing Forms of Capital in Youth Transitions.