Ezgi
Tuncer
Ezgi Tuncer is an associate professor at Kadir Has University (KHAS) in Istanbul. She is the head of the Department of Architecture and the director of both the Center for Istanbul Studies and the Architectural and Urban Studies M.Sc. program at KHAS. Her research and teaching focus on space, politics and power; ethno-spatial methodologies; rhythm-analysis and everyday life practices; migration and displacement; border studies; and contemporary art and space. She was a visiting researcher at the UKRI GCRF Centre for Gender, Justice and Security at LSE and co-investigator of the Gender Dynamics of International Labour Migration project under the Migration and Displacement Stream from 2020 to 2022. From 2022 to 2024, she was the principal investigator of the TUBITAK-funded research project 'Transnational Urbanism and Everyday Life Practices of Skilled Migrants in Istanbul'.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3854 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0755-6311 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/www.linkedin.com/in/ezgi-tuncer-phd-335b94198/ | |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
Migration governance
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Other
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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Kadir Has University
University, Istanbul, Turkey
Director of Istanbul Studies Center & MSc. Program in Architectural and Urban Studies
Research
Acceptable ‘expats’ versus unwanted ‘Arabs’: Tracing hierarchies through everyday urban practices of skilled migrant women in Istanbul
| Authors | Ezgi Tuncer |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
An unsettling re-composition: Istanbul's lost Armenian April 11 Memorial
| Authors | Ela Gök, Ezgi Tuncer |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Historical Geography |
Representations of everyday life in İnci Eviner’s We, Elsewhere: comedy, use and free will
| Authors | Ezgi Tuncer, Bülent Diken |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media |
From Melling’s Harem to Eviner’s Harem
| Authors | Bülent Diken, Ezgi Tuncer |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Third Text |
Border as “Zone of Indistinction”: The State of Exception and the Spectacle of Terror Along Turkey’s Border With Syria
| Authors | Ezgi Tuncer Gürkaş |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Space and Culture |
Suggested Research
From ‘safe haven’ to ‘zone of precarity’: locating Istanbul through the perceptions and everyday urban practices of skilled migrants
| Authors | Ezgi Tuncer |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |