Ipek
Demir

I am Professor of Diaspora Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Recently I have been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 3 years on a project ‘On the Margins of Whiteness: How do Migrants Negotiate Racial Alliances?’. I am the Director of Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, Leeds. My book Diaspora as Translation and Decolonisation (2022, MUP) takes debates on diaspora away from discussions of 'homeland' and of 'hybridity' to examining how diasporas change, intervene and decolonise new spaces.