Hilal Alkan is a researcher based at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin. She completed her PhD at the Open University, UK. She conducted extensive ethnographic research with informal neighborhood organizations providing initial assistance to migrants and refugees in Istanbul. In another project she worked with Syrian refugees who lived in Turkey and then fled to Germany to comparatively understand the two migration contexts from the viewpoint of refugees themselves. Most recently, she is working...
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Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient

    Research Institute, Berlin, Germany
    Researcher

  • Alice Salomon Hochschule

    University, Berlin, Germany
    Lecturer

Research

The gift of hospitality and the (un)welcoming of Syrian migrants in Turkey

Authors HILAL ALKAN
Year 2021
Journal Name American Ethnologist
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1 Journal Article

Urban Neighbourhood Formations Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies

Authors Hilal Alkan, Nazan Maksudyan
Year 2020
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3 Book

Syrian migration and logics of alterity in an Istanbul neighbourhood

Authors Hilal Alkan
Year 2020
Book Title Urban Neighbourhood Formations
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4 Book Chapter

Suggested Research

Caring (for) relations: Syrian refugees between gendered kin-contract and citizenship in Germany and Turkey

Authors Hilal Alkan
Year 2022
Journal Name Citizenship Studies
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1 Journal Article
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