I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and Department of Sociology at Koç University, Istanbul since 2016. I am also a member of the executive board of the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc). As of January 2020, I am one of the editors of the journal International Migration.
My primary research interests include power, inequalities and contestations in relation to different aspects of international mobility. My work therefore is largely informed...
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1498-0025 |
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
Geographies
Roles
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Koç Üniversitesi
University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research
Migration aspirations in relation to border closures, employment opportunities and risk-taking attitudes: lessons from an online survey experiment
| Authors | Eda Kiriscioglu, Ayşen Üstübici, Ezgi Elçi |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Daring to aspire: theorising aspirations in contexts of displacement and highly constrained mobility
| Authors | Lea Müller-Funk, Ayşen Üstübici, Milena Belloni |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
“At Least, at the Border, I Am Killing Myself by My Own Will”: Migration Aspirations and Risk Perceptions among Syrian and Afghan Communities
| Authors | Eda Kiriscioglu, Eda Kiriscioglu, Aysen Ustubici, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Aspirations among young refugees in Turkey: social class, integration and onward migration in forced migration contexts
| Authors | Ayşen Üstübici, Ezgi Elçi |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Letter from the Editors
| Authors | Aysen Icduygu, Jan Rath, Deniz Sert, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Progress of migration scholarship over 60 years of International Migration
| Authors | Ahmet Icduygu, Jan Rath, Deniz Sert, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
How Covid-19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed-method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey
| Authors | Ezgi Elci, Eda Kiriscioglu, Aysen Ustubici |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | DISASTERS |
| Citations (WoS) | 9 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Street-Level Justifications’: Service Providers Mediating Refugee Reception in the Urban Context of Istanbul
| Authors | Aysen Ustubici |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 7 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Tracing Asylum Journeys: Transnational Mobility of Non-European Refugees to Canada via Turkey by Uğur Yıldız
| Authors | Aysen Ustubici |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Asian and Pacific Migration Journal |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The impact of externalized migration governance on Turkey: technocratic migration governance and the production of differentiated legal status
| Authors | Ayşen Üstübici |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Border closures and the externalization of immigration controls in the Mediterranean: a comparative analysis of Morocco and Turkey
| Authors | Aysen Ustubici, Ahmet Icduygu |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | New Perspectives on Turkey |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Border closures and the externalization of immigration controls in the Mediterranean: A comparative analysis of Morocco and Turkey
| Authors | Aysen Ustubici, Ahmet Icduygu |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | New Perspectives on Turkey |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City By Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
| Authors | Aysen Ustubici |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Asian and Pacific Migration Journal |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Political Activism Between Journey and Settlement: Irregular Migrant Mobilisation in Morocco
| Authors | Ayşen Üstübici |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Geopolitics |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Beyond Turkey's Borders: Long Distance Kemalism, State Politics and the Turkish Diaspora
| Authors | Aysen Ustubici |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | New Perspectives on Turkey |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reflections from the conference “Turkey debates its social policies”: A rights-based turn in social policy making in Turkey?
| Authors | Ayşe Alnıaçık, Ayşen Üstübici |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | New Perspectives on Turkey |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
THE IMPACT OF REMITTANCES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
| Authors | Aysen Ustubici, Darja Irdam |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Economics & Sociology |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Letter from the editors
| Authors | Ahmet Icduygu, Ahmet Icduygu, Deniz Sert, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |