Ezgi
Tuncer
I am currently an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at Kadir Has University and a visiting scholar at the University of Washington during my sabbatical year.
Trained in and holding a PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies, my research lies at the intersection of urban space, power, migration, and everyday spatial tactics. My doctoral research introduced an ethno-spatial methodology that
combines ethnographic inquiry with spatial analysis, laying the foundation for an interdisciplinary
research agenda bridging architectural theory and political sociology. Throughout my career, I have examined
how space is produced, inhabited, and contested within structural inequality. While my early work focused on
internally displaced Kurds, border regions, and power hierarchies in Turkey, my subsequent research has
expanded to include labor and skilled migration, practices of everyday life, urban precarity, and the fragility of the
middle class in global cities.
As a co-investigator at the UKRI GCRF Centre for Gender, Justice, and Security at the London School of
Economics, I coordinated multi-regional fieldwork in Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, and Pakistan, contributing a spatial
and urban perspective to research on the gendered dynamics of international labor migration. Additionally, I was
the principal investigator of a TÜBİTAK 1001-funded project on skilled migrants in Istanbul, and am currently
leading a TÜBİTAK 2219-supported research project at the University of Washington on skilled migrants from
the Near and Middle East in the greater Seattle area, both of which are situated within the interdisciplinary field of
digital humanities.
| 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
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 |
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 |
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