Sinan Çankaya

Sinan Çankaya (b. 1982) is a writer and cultural anthropologist. He earned a PhD on diversity within the police force, and went on to research ethnic profiling. His journalistic writings are published each month at De Correspondent. He is currently working as a lecturer at Amsterdam’s Vrije Universiteit (VU).

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Sinan Çankaya

My Innumerable Identities

When asked to give a speech on ‘breaking through boundaries’ at his old secondary school, cultural anthropologist Sinan Çankaya finds himself forced to describe his quest for his identity. ‘But what do they want me to say?’ he asks himself repeatedly. He can’t help but think of the problems he faced due to others constantly pigeonholing and defining him, and the discrimination he experienced at that very school.

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