Nimer is Associate Professor at Akdeniz University, Department of Sociology, working at the intersection between migration governance and experiences, social and gender inequalities and development. Previously, she carried out work at Paris Nanterre University examining the way in which intellectual production is transformed by exile, and prior to that Koç University, and as a Mercator IPC fellow at Sabanci University, dealing with the experiences of Syrian refugee youth in Turkey and language learning. She obtained her PhD in July 2016 at Paris Saclay University looking at inequalities of access to higher education and mechanisms of action of an internationally funded development program in Lebanon.
Her work has been published in international and regional academic journals including Gender and Education, Critical Sociology, Governance, Migration Studies, Third World Quarterly, Sociological Research Online, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Multilingua, Comparative Education Review as well as New Perspectives on Turkey, Idafat, Civil Society Review and New Middle East Studies Journal.
She was awarded the BAGEP 2023 award (Science Academy’s Young Scientist Awards Program) and 2022 TÜBİTAK Incentive Award (2022 TÜBİTAK Teşvik Ödülü) in recognition of her research contribution.
She obtained her MSc from the London School of Economics and BS from the American University of Beirut.
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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
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Legal-political 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
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
Roles
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Istanbul University
University, Istanbul, Turkey
Assistant Professor -
Sabanci Universitesi
Other, Istanbul, Turkey
Research
Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status, and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey
| Authors | Susan Beth Rottmann, Maissam Nimer |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Multilingua | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Beyond Social Mobility: Biographies, Habitus and Responses to Changing ‘Conditions of Existence’ among University Scholarship Students
| Authors | Maissam Nimer |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Sociological Research Online | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transforming state-civil society relations: centralization and externalization in refugee education
| Authors | Maissam Nimer |
| Year | 2020 |
| Citations (WoS) | 7 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The politics of return: exploring the future of Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey
| Authors | Ahmet Içduygu, Maissam Nimer |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Third World Quarterly | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Gendered socializations and critical reflexivity in an Elite University in Lebanon
| Authors | Maissam Nimer |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Gender and Education | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migration Regime and “Language Part of Work”: Experiences of Syrian Refugees as Surplus Population in the Turkish Labor Market
| Authors | Maissam Nimer, Susan Beth Rottmann |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Critical Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social justice or ‘human capital’ development through higher education: experiences of scholarship students in Lebanon
| Authors | Maissam Nimer, Çetin Çelik |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | International Studies in Sociology of Education | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border
| Authors | Maissam Nimer |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Feyzi, Baban,Ilcan, Suzan, Rygiel, Kim. 2021. The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey. McGill‐Queen’s University Press: Montreal. pp. 296.
| Authors | Maissam Nimer |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | International Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
1A Concluding Note fromthe Experts’Workshopin Istanbul:“What does the Global Compact on Refugees mean for the MENA region?”
| Authors | Eleni Diker, Maissam Nimer |
| Year | 2018 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sustainable Approaches to Humanitarian Assistance in the Field of Language Education for Adult Refugees in Turkey
| Authors | Maissam Nimer, Tuygun Oruç |
| Year | 2019 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Logistification and Hyper-Precarity at the Intersection of Migration and Pandemic Governance: Refugees in the Turkish Labour Market
| Authors | Maissam Nimer, Susan Beth Rottmann |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 9 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘We always open our doors for visitors’—Hospitality as homemaking strategy for refugee women in Istanbul
| Authors | Susan Beth Rottmann, Maissam Nimer |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reflexivity as Critique? A Conversation on the Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies
| Authors | Maurice Stierl, Laura Stielike, Philipp Schäfer, ... |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung | Journal of Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |