Études contemporaines

Executive Editor at alJumhuriya Collective - Lecturer at Işık Üniversitesi

Auteur d'une thèse à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales à Paris en 2008

Plusieurs séjours de terrain en Afghanistan Enseignant à l'Institut univ. d'études du développement (IUED) de Genève (2004).

After graduating from Atatürk University, Department of Geography, Deniz has been working at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Department of Geography since 1993. Deniz became Assistant Professor in 2003; Associate Professor in 2011 and Professor in 2016. He continues his studies mainly on irregular migration and security. He pioneered the establishment of the Population and Migration Research Center at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University in order to institutionalize migration research in Van, which has been an important crossroads of international migration for many years. He also took an active role in the establishment of the General Directorate of Migration Management. Deniz, who still works as the Dean of the Faculty of Letters and the Director of the Population and Migration Research Center at the university, continues his studies on the geographical structure of Turkey's eastern border, the relationship between the geographical structure of the border and irregular migration flows, migrant networks, the actors of migration and security.

Sibel Karadağ is an assistant professor at Kadir Has University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration. She is also 2021/2022 Mercator-IPC Fellow. Karadağ received her PhD from Koç University in 2020, with the dissertation titled “Monitoring Migration, Governing Borders in the Aegean Sea: An Ethnographic Study of Practices, Subjectivities and Narratives”. After completing her doctoral research, she worked as postdoc at MiReKoc within the Horizon 2020 ADMIGOV project, and simultaneously pursued her research under GAR. During the 2018/2019 academic year, she was a Fulbright Fellow at Yale University. Her interests lie mainly in critical security and border studies, migration and mobility, politics of humanitarianism, sovereignty and citizenship, social and political theory. Karadağ received her BA in Social and Political Science and MA in European Studies from Sabancı University as well as a MSc in Social Policy from LSE with Jean Monnet Scholarship.

Professeur associé de relations internationales, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul (en 2018)

Professeure de Relations Internationales à l'université Kadir Has (KHAS) (2021)

Professeur associé de Relations internationales à l'université Kadir Has d'Istanbul (2021)

Assistant professeur à "International Relations. Middle East Technical University" Ankara (Turquie), 2015

Spécialiste de la Turquie dans son environnement régional, Caucase, Asie centrale, Moyen-Orient et des relations entre islam et politique dans l’espace post-soviétique.- Ingénieur de recherche CNRS au CERI - Centre de recherches internationales de Sciences Po (en 2019)