Saime Özçürümez (Ph.D., McGill) is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Başkent University. She conducts research and publishes on migration policy and politics in the European Union, Turkey, and Canada, health and immigration, gender and immigration, irregular immigration, integration and citizenship, media representation of migrants, comparative politics of deliberative democracy, and Europeanization research agenda.
She has articles published in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Turkish Studies, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Uluslararasi Iliskiler-International Relations, Women’s Studies International Forum, European Political Science.
She is the co-editor of two books: Of States, Rights and Social Closure with Palgrave and Asylum, International Migration and Statelessness: Concepts, Theories and Politics (in Turkish, UNHCR publications). She has co-authored several book chapters on immigration policy process and foreign policy in Turkey in comparative perspective, Europeanization and collective identities through historical and media analysis in Turkey and access to health care by ethno-cultural groups in Canada, Italy and Germany.
She has been part of many international and national collaborative research projects on cultural diversity and health care systems; transcultural memory in Europe, collective identities in Europe, migrants’ media representation, transformation of governance in EU accession in Turkey in immigration policy and is the co-principal investigator of MoBILity Lab at Bilkent University conducting research and activities on public policy co-construction as well as collaboration focused on immigration and integration policy.
Research Interests: Migration policy and politics in the European Union, Turkey and Canada, Health and immigration, Gender and immigration. Irregular immigration, Integration and citizenship, Media representation of migrants, Comparative politics of deliberative democracy, and Europeanization research agenda
| Institution: | Başkent University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Collective Identity Cultural Diversity, Integration and Multiculturalism Democracy and Political Participation EU Policies European Identity/ EU Citizenship Gender Politics and Policy Migration Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
| Research groups: | RG ECSA-C Migration,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | saime.ozcurumez@gmail.com |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, Turkish |
| Publications: | Turper, Sedef & Ozcurumez, Saime. (2024). Developing a Multidimensional Measure for Understanding Refugee Integration in Protracted Displacement Contexts: Evidence from Turkey. Social Indicators Research. 1-22. 10.1007/s11205-024-03447-z. Kurfalı, Merve & Ozcurumez, Saime. (2023). Residing without settling: Housing market and tactics of Syrian forced migrants in Turkey. Population, Space and Place. 29. 10.1002/psp.2700. Ozcurumez, Saime & Tursun, Özgün & Tunç, Ahmet. (2023). Exploring the impact of teachers’ past migration experience on inclusive education for refugee children. International Journal of Inclusive Education. 1-17. 10.1080/13603116.2023.2221255. Ozcurumez, Saime & Hoxha, Julinda. (2022). Expanding the boundaries of the local: Entrepreneurial municipalism and migration governance in Turkey. New Perspectives on Turkey. 68. 1-19. 10.1017/npt.2022.19. Ozcurumez, S. and Yetkin Aker, D. “What moves the highly skilled and Why? Comparing Turkish Nationals in Canada and Germany” International Migration, 54(3),61-72, (2016). Ozcurumez, S. and Hoxha, J. “Conditional Deliberation: The Case of JPCs in the EU”, Journal of Common Market Studies, 53(3),642-657, (2015). “Rights of Irregular Migrants: Governing Irregular Migration in Greece, Spain and Turkey” (with N. Senses) A. Biriz Karaçay, Deniz Sert and Z. Gülru Göker “Waves of Diversity: Socio- Political Implications of International Migration in Turkey”, Isis Yayınları, 2015. “Syrians under Temporary Protection, Health Services and NGOs in Turkey: Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants and Turkish Medical Doctors’ Association” (with Deniz Yildirim) in S. Greer, M. Wismar, G. Pastorino and M. Kosinska (eds), “Civil Society and Health: Contributions and Potential”, Copenhagen: European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2017. Ozcurumez, S. and Yetkin, D. “Limits to Regulating Irregular Migration in Turkey: What constrains public policy and why?”, Turkish Studies, 15(3), 442-457, (2014). |
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