Experts Index

Dr. Sayed Mahdi Mosawi is an Open Society University Network (OSUN)-Alwaleed Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh, UK. His research focuses on migration and transnationalism, the Muslim diaspora and refugees, and gender and masculinities....

Sebastian Rinken (PhD, EUI) is researcher and deputy director at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies (IESA), a unit of Spain's Research Council (CSIC) located in Córdoba. Having worked extensively on a variety of integration processes, his current research focuses mostly on attitudes toward immigration...

Postdoctoral Fellow at Tallinn University (Estonia) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). Visiting Scholar at the Universidad Casa Grande (Ecuador). Dual Ph.D. in Humanities (Leiden University, the Netherlands) and in Political Science (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile). Chair of the IMISCOE's...

Seda CAN TOPKAN received her PhD degree in Sociology from Hacettepe University in 2022. Her research focuses on the transnational political participation of Turkish-Belgian dual citizens living in Belgium.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Kadir Has University on the project "The Role of Social Interaction in the Desecuritization of Syrians in Turkey". I completed my Ph.D. in Migration Studies at Düzce University in 2023. My dissertation entitled "Seeking Refuge through Marriage: Marriage Experiences of...

Mr. Orhan earned his Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) degree at the Turkish-German University (2024). In 2022, he completed with distinction RSC Pathways, a course offered by University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). He has additionally completed the Statelessness Intensive Course at the Peter McMullin...

PhD in Sociology at the University of Seville in Spain. Wrote her PhD thesis on the role of labour market determinants over the migration of Turkish nationals to the European Union by comparing the labour market policies of Denmark, Germany, the UK, Spain and Estonia, as well Turkey and the EU. Expert...

Selen Subasi is a PhD candidate in Educational Sciences at the University of Szeged. Her research interests are the education of minorities and refugees, lifelong learning, non-formal education and women’s education. Her master's thesis focused on the education of the Roma minority in Hungary. She is...

I currently work as Senior Research Associate in Qualitative Research at the University of Bristol. Prior to the current position, I worked as post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna. I have been trained as an interdisciplinary migration scholar with a substantive...

Sema Buz is a professor at Hacettepe University Department of Social Work. She is also director of Hacettepe University Migration and Politics Research Center (HUGO). She completed her MA and PhD thesis about asylum seekers in Turkey. She have publications related women an migration, integration of refugees,...

I am an Assistant Professor of Development and Education in Inclusive Societies at Utrecht University. I am studying interventions countering polarization in education, and educational cooperation initiatives between mosques, schools and youth care institutions sharing a student population in multiethnic...