Auteur: N. Ela Gökalp-Aras

Dr. Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek is a Senior Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, Germany. She is also a Research Affliate  at CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Toronto, Canada. She holds a Ph D in Politics and International Relations from the University of Southern California and an Associate Professor status in International Relations in Turkey. Dr. Şahin-Mencütek has gained several fellowship, including an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg Essen and grants for EC-funded projects. Dr. N. Ela Gökalp-Aras is a Senior Researcher at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII), Turkey. She has a BA degree in International Relations from Ankara University (2000), MSc (2005) and a Ph D (2013) degrees in Sociology from Middle East Technical University. She was a Principal Investigator (PI) for the EU-funded Horizon2020 Project, “RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond”. She is also the Director of the Migration Research Centre of the Association of Development, Migration and Social Policies (DEMIS-MIREC) and one of the editors of the International Journal of Human Mobility. Prof. Ayhan Kaya is Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; and a member of the Science Academy, Turkey. He is currently European Research Council Advanced Grant holder (ERC Ad G, 2019-2024). Asst. Prof. Dr. Susan Rottmann is a lecturer in Anthropology at the Social Science Faculty at Özyeğin University, Turkey. She has her Ph D in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2012). Dr. Rottmann has received several major research grants, including a Fulbright-Hays DDRA and grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the Institute of Turkish Studies and Tübitak. She was a PI for the EC-funded HORIZON 2020 project, RESPOND- Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond.