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
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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
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal 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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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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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 |
Temporal Intersections of Mobility and Informality: Simsars as (Im)moral Agents in the Trajectories of Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Germany
| Authors | Hilal Alkan |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Migration Letters |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Urban Neighbourhood Formations Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies
| Authors | Hilal Alkan, Nazan Maksudyan |
| Year | 2020 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Syrian migration and logics of alterity in an Istanbul neighbourhood
| Authors | Hilal Alkan |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Urban Neighbourhood Formations |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |