I
am currently a research officier at the International
Migration Institute at the University of Oxford. I work on the EUMAGINE
- imagining Europe from the outside - project. This project looks at the relation
between perceptions of human rights and democracy and migratory aspirations and
imaginations of people in Morocco, Senegal, Turkey and the Ukraine.
From
2004 until the summer of 2009 I was a PhD student at the sociology
department of the VU University Amsterdam. My PhD project investigated the
Host Country Adoption and Ethnic Retention of Turkish immigrants and their descendants
in France, Germany and the Netherlands. The study is based on a large-scale telephone
survey and qualitative interviews. In March 2010 I defended my thesis "Comparing
Integration. Host culture adoption and ethnic retention among Turkish immigrants
and their descendents in France, Germany and the Netherlands." You can read
the English summary here
My
research interests include immigration and
integration policies from a comparative perspective, citizenship, identity, international
migration, and migrant family relations.
