Bilge
Yabanci
My interdisciplinary research connects the theoretical and conceptual borders of political science, sociology, and political psychology. Specifically, I work on migrant organisations in host countries (diaspora organizations) and recipient countries (civic networks and organizations that advocate refugee /migrant rights). In my current project, I investigate alternative communicative narratives that such organisations can adopt to reach out to the wider public. These communicative narratives reframe migrants and refugees as 'deserving' and 'rights-bearing agents' and seek to generate cross-partisan public deliberation and positive attitudes. In my current project, I combine fieldwork, network analysis, surveys and online randomized experiments to predict how social change for more inclusive societies can be initiated. This research aims to offer policy-relevant alternatives to change racialized attitudes of various ideological, socio-economic, and psychographic groups as well as non-citizens (migrants and refugees).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1358 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3937-9789 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/byabanci |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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Scope
Roles
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Università Ca' Foscari
University, Venezia, Italy
Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow -
Northwestern University
University, Chicago, United States
Researcher -
Northwestern University
University, Evanston, United States
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Stockholm University
University, Stockholm, Sweden
Researcher
Research
Negotiated Conformism: Gender Norms, Everyday Politics and Pro-government Actors in Turkey
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci, Erol Saglam |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | The International Spectator | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
At the Intersections of Populism, Nationalism and Islam: Justice and Development Party and Populist Reconfiguration of Religion in Politics
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Gender Politics under Autocratization and Two Decades of Women's Movement in Turkey
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci, Chiara Maritato |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Religion, Gender, and Populism in the Mediterranean | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Civil Society and Latent Mobilisation Under Authoritarian Neoliberal Governance
| Authors | Bilge Yabancı |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Home State Oriented Diaspora Organizations and the Making of Partisan Citizens Abroad: Motivations, Discursive Frames, and Actions Towards Co-Opting the Turkish Diaspora in Europe
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Diaspora | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Fuzzy Borders between Populism and Sacralized Politics: Mission, Leader, Community and Performance in ‘New’ Turkey
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Politics, Religion & Ideology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Work for the Nation, Obey the State, Praise the Ummah: Turkey’s Government-oriented Youth Organizations in Cultivating a New Nation
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Ethnopolitics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Turkey’s tamed civil society: Containment and appropriation under a competitive authoritarian regime
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Civil Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Co-opting religion: how ruling populists in Turkey and Macedonia sacralise the majority
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci, Dane Taleski |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Religion, State and Society |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Populism as the problem child of democracy: the AKP’s enduring appeal and the use of meso-level actors
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Southeast European and Black Sea Studies |
The (Il)legitimacy of EU state building: local support and contention in Kosovo
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Southeast European and Black Sea Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Far Right in the Balkans
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Europe-Asia Studies |
Civic Opposition and Democratic Backsliding: Mobilization Dynamics and Rapport with Political Parties
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Government and Opposition | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Overcoming prejudices and stigmatization towards refugees: A novel approach through deliberative citizen dialogues in Turkey
| Authors | Bilge Yabanci |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |