Publications

Journal Articles

• “Electoral pressure, reputational risks, and coalition politics: how established parties respond to the rise of anti-immigrant parties.” New Perspectives on Turkey (2025): 1-21. (WoS Q1, Scimago Q1).(With Ezgi Elçi and Evren Balta.)
• “The Strategic Use of Narratives and Governance of the COVID-19 Pandemic in major autocratisers in Europe,” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 2024, DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2024.2307820 (WoS Q2, Scimago Q1). (With Diğdem Soyaltın).
• “Double displacement of refugees in the context of the 2023 Turkey‐Syria earthquake,” International Migration, 2023 (WoS Q3, Scimago Q1). (With Eda Sevinin & Didem Danış).
• “(Non)deport to discipline: The case of Afghans in Turkey”, Journal of Refugee Studies, 36(3): 449-466, 2023 (WoS JIF Q3, JCI Q1, Scimago Q1). (With Sibel Karadağ).
• “İran-Türkiye Göç Sistemi: Süreklilik ve Değişimler,” İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2022. (With Uğur Yıldız).
• “Alienated imagination through a mega development project in Turkey: the case of Osman Gazi Bridge,” New Perspectives on Turkey, 2022 (WoS JIF Q3, JCI Q1, Scimago Q1). (With Umut Kuruüzüm).
• “Frames Matter: No Crisis Discourse and State Power in Turkey,” International Migration, 59(1):197-214, 2021. (With Didem Danış). (WoS JIF Q3, JCI Q2, Scimago Q1).
• “Dynamics of Mobility-Stasis in Refugee Journeys: Case of Resettlement from Turkey to Canada,” Migration Studies, 9(2): 196-215, 2021. (With Uğur Yıldız) (WoS JIF Q3, JCI Q1; Scimago Q1).
• “Dual Citizenship and Integration Nexus: A Case for Turkey,” Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi, 16(64): 93-106, 2019. (With Deniz K. Korfalı) (WoS JIF Q4, JCI Q4, Scimago Q4).
• “Property Rights in the Syrian Conflict: Remedy for the Displaced,” Migration Letters, 16:2, 2019. (WoS JCI Q2, Scimago Q2).
• “Syrian Refugees –Facing Challenges, Making Choices,” International Migration Special Issue Editorial, 57(2): 121-5, April 2019. (With Ahmet İçduygu) (Social Sciences Citation Index, Scimago Q2).
• “Refugees and Elections: The Effects of Syrians on Voting Behaviour in Turkey,” International Migration, 57(2): 298-312, April 2019. (With Ali Fisunoğlu) (WoS JIF Q3, JCI Q2, Scimago Q2).
• “Making a Case over Greco-Turkish Rivalry: Major Power Linkages and Rivalry Strength,” Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi, 15(59): 105-127, 2018. (With Konstantinos Travlos) (Social Sciences Citation Index, Scimago Q4).
• “From Competitive to Multidirectional Memory: A Literary Tool for Comparison,” Turkish Studies, 19(1): 118-38, 2018. DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2017.1354703. (With Çimen Günay Erkol) (Social Sciences Citation Index, WOS Q1, Scimago Q1).
• “Göçün Jeopolitiği ve Türkiye’nin Coğrafi Kısıtlaması Üzerine Farklı Bir Yorum,” Toplum ve Bilim, Sayı 140, 2017. (With Uğur Yıldız).
• “Turkey’s Position on IDP Properties: Lessons (Not) Learned A comparative case of Kurdish and Cyprus issues,” International Migration, 55: 150-161, 2017. doi:10.1111/imig.12290 (Social Sciences Citation Index, Scimago Q2).
• “Beceri Aktarımından Değersizleşmeye: Türkiye’de Göçmenlerin Niteliksizleştirilmesi,” Şehir ve Toplum Dergisi, Issue 6, December 2016.
• “From Skill Translation to Devaluation: The De-qualification of Migrants in Turkey,” New Perspectives on Turkey, 54: 97-117, 2016, DOI: 10.1017/npt.2016.9 (Social Sciences Citation Index, Scimago Q1).
• “Kısıtlanan Özgürlükler: Türkiye’de Sığınmacı Olmak (Limiting Freedoms: Being an Asylum Seeker in Turkey),” Birikim, Issue 320, December 2015. (With Uğur Yıldız).
• “EU migration legacies – perspectives from sending countries,” Migration and Development, 4: 2, 232-237,DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2015.1022085, 2015. (Special Issue Cluster Edited with Bastian Vollmer and Ahmet İçduygu). (Refereed Journal).
• “Development as a Determinant of Non-Migration: The Case of Turkey,” Migration and Development, 4:2, 256-271, DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2015.1022087, 2015. (With Deniz K. Korfalı). (Refereed Journal).
• “Internal Displacement: Return, Property, Economy,” International Migration, Vol. 52(5): 227–244, October 2014. (Social Sciences Citation Index, Scimago Q2).
• “International Student Migration to Turkey: Focus on CEE,” Turkish Review, Vol. 4(5), Fall 2014. (With Deniz K. Korfalı and Tuğba Acar). (Refereed Journal).
• “Elements of Uncertainty in Turkey’s Refugee System,” Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol. 13(1), Spring 2014.
• “Autonomy Despite Restrictions: Asylum Seekers in Isparta, Istanbul, and Yalova,” Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Dergisi, Vol. 1(1): 135-151, 2013. (With Uğur Yıldız). (Refereed Journal).
• “Turkey’s Integrated Border Management Strategy?” Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol. 12:1, Spring 2013.
• “Integration and/or Transnationalism? The Case of Turkish-German Transnational Space,” Perceptions, Vol. 17:2, 85-102, Summer 2012. (Refereed Journal).
• “Project-Tied Labor Migration from Turkey to the MENA Region: Past, Present, and Future,” International Labor and Working-Class History, Special Issue on Labor Migration and the Middle East, 2011, Vol. 79, 62-80. (With Ahmet İçduygu). (Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Scimago Q2).
• “Reversing Segregation? The Property Restitution Process in Post-War Bosnia,” Ethnopolitics, 2011, Vol. 10:2, 219-230. (Refereed Journal, Scimago Q1).
• “Cyprus: Peace, Return and Property,” Journal of Refugee Studies, 2010, Vol. 23:2, 238-259. (Social Sciences Citation Index, WOS Q1, Scimago Q1).
• “The March 2009 Local Elections and the Inconsistent Democratic Transformation the AKP in Turkey,” Middle East Critique, 2010, Vol. 19:1, 55-70. (With Şebnem Gümüşcü). (Refereed Journal, Scimago Q1).
• “The Power of Devout Bourgeoisie: The Case of Justice and Development Party in Turkey,” Middle Eastern Studies, 2009, Vol. 45:6, 953-968. (With Şebnem Gümüşcü). (Social Sciences Citation Index, Scimago Q1).
• “Domestic Politics in Cyprus: Grounds for Migrant Voices?” Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 2007, Vol. 17:2, 355-382. (Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Scimago Q4).

Book Chapters

• “Refugee resettlement: challenges, solutions, and pathways forward,” in K. Bruce Newbold & Mary Crea-Arsenio (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Immigration Settlement and Adjustment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026. (With Ayşe Buket Mert)
• “The Transformation of Migration Governance in Turkey,” in Harun Arıkan & Zeynep Alemdar (Eds.), Turkey’s Challenges and Transformation: Politics and Society on the Centennial of the Republic, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (With Uğur Yıldız).
• “Externalising externalisation: Turkey learning from Europe,” In Didem Soyaltın (Ed.), European Union’s Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline and Global Alternatives, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. (With Şevval Alparslan).
• “Gender, Mobility, and Displacement,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.634. (With Fulya Türkmen).
• “Theories of Migration: Reasons for Mobility.” In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Özuyar P., Wall T. (eds) Reduced Inequalities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham, 2021. (With T. Ceyla Erenler).
• “Global Policy on Migration.” In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Özuyar P., Wall T. (eds) Reduced Inequalities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham, 2021.(With Fulya F. Türkmen).
• “The Greek-Turkish War and the Waves of Migration: Redemption or Devastation?” in Konstantinos Travlos (Ed.) Salvation and Catastrophe: The Greek-Turkish War 1919-1922, Lexington Books, 2020. (With Fulya F. Türkmen).
• “Imaginations of Europe in Turkey or Spatial Order of Things: Where does Germany stand,” in Anne M. N. Sokoll, Ed., TürkeiAlmanya: Migration und Interkulturalität im deutsch-türkischen Kontext, Düsseldorf, 2019. (With Uğur Yıldız).
• “Diversification of Intra-EU Mobility,” in Peter Scholten & Mark van Ostaijen, Eds., Between Mobility and Migration, New York: Springer, 2018.
• “Tarımda Suriyeli İstihdamı: Kısa Bir Deneme,” in Faik Gür & Murat Bayramoğlu, Eds., Sürdürülebilir Yaşam Penceresinden Yerel ve Kırsal Kalkınma, Istanbul: Özyeğin University Press, 2018.
• “The EU-Turkey Refugee Deal: The “Baleful” Balance between Protection of Refugee and Human Rights and Controlled Refugee Flows,” in Angelos Giannakopoulos, Ed. Solidarity in the European Union: Challenges and Perspectives, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2017. (With Fulya F. Türkmen).
• “A Debate over Return Migration: The Case of Turkish Guest-Workers in Germany,” in David L. Leal & Néstor P. Rodríguez, Eds., Migration in an Era of Restriction and Recession: Sending and Receiving Nations in a Changing Global Environment, New York: Springer, 2016. (With Ahmet İçduygu).
• “Governing Without Control: Turkey’s Struggle with Mobility,” in Cenk Ozbay et. al., Eds., The Making of Neoliberal Turkey, Burlington: Ashgate, 2016. (With Uğur Yıldız).
• “The Changing Waves of Migration from the Balkans to Turkey: A Historical Account,” in Hans Vermeulen, Martin Baldwin-Edwards & Riki Van Boeschoten, Eds., Migration in the Southern Balkans: From Ottoman Territory to Globalized Nation States, IMISCOE Research, Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. (With Ahmet İçduygu).
• “Balkan Göçlerinin Değişen Hikayesi: Balkan Savaşları’ndan Bugüne Tarihsel Bir Derleme”, in Mustafa Türkeş, 100. Yılında Balkan Savaşları (1912-1913): İhtilaflı Duruşlar, Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2014. (With Ahmet İçduygu).
• “Migrants’ Uncertainties versus State’s Insecurities: Transit Migration in Turkey,” in Franck Düvell, Irina Molodikova and Michael Collyer, Eds., Transit Migration in Europe, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014. (With Ahmet İçduygu).
• “Küresel Hareketlilik ve Göç”, in Evren Balta, Ed., Küresel Siyasete Giriş: Kavramlar, Teoriler ve Süreçler, İletişim Yayınları, 2014.
• “UNHCR,” in Immanuel Ness, Ed., The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley, February 2013.
• “Compensation Packages,” in Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, Eds., The New Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• “Varying transnational and multicultural activities in the Turkish and German migration context,” in Pirkko Pitkanen, Ahmet İçduygu and Deniz Sert, Eds., Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism, Springer, 2012. (With Jürgen Gerdes and Eveline Reisenauer).
• “Current Characteristics of Migrant Transnationalism,” in Pirkko Pitkanen, Ahmet İçduygu and Deniz Sert, Eds., Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism, Springer, 2012. (With Pirkko Pitkanen and Ahmet İçduygu).
• “Uluslararası Göç Yazınında Bütünleyici Bir Kurama Doğru (Towards A Comprehensive Theory of International Migration),” in N. Aslı Şirin and S. Gülfer Ihlamur-Öner, Eds. Küreselleşme Çağında Göç: Kavramlar, Tartışmalar (Migration in the Age of Globalization: Concepts, Debates), İletişim Yayınları, 2012.
• “Transit Border Crossings in Turkey: An Environment of Uncertainty and Insecurity,” in Maria Eugenia Anguiano and Maria Lopez Sala, Eds., Migration and Borders: Methodological Approaches and Case Studies, Barcelona: Editorial Bellaterra, CIDOB, in Spanish, 2010. (With Ahmet İçduygu).
• “From Unstable East to Prosperous West: Turkey’s New Role as a Country of Immigration and Transit,” in Vida Bakondy and Cornelia Kogoj, Eds., Good Luck! Migration Today, Vienna, Belgrade, Zagreb, Istanbul, Initiative Minderheiten, 2010. (With Ahmet İçduygu).
• “Explaining Why People Move: Intra and Interdisciplinary Debates about the Causes of International Migration,” in Robert A. Denemark, Ed., The International Studies Encyclopedia, Wiley, 2010.

Books

• Waves of Diversity: Socio-Political Implications of International Migration in Turkey, The Isis Press, 2015. Edited with Ayşem Biriz Karaçay and Zeynep Gülru Göker).
• Migration and Turkey: Changing Human Geography, The Isis Press, 2014. (Edited with Deniz Karcı Korfalı).
• Borders Under Stress: The Cases of Turkey-EU and Mexico-USA Borders, The Isis Press, 2012. (Edited with Ahmet İçduygu).
• Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism, Springer, 2012. (Edited with Pirkko Pitkanen and Ahmet İçduygu).
• Property Rights of Internally Displaces Persons: Ideals and Realities, Lambert, 2010.