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Gülay Kilicaslan is a political sociologist holding a PhD from the Department of Sociology at York University, Canada. Her dissertation examines the impacts of forced displacement on the dynamics of political mobilisation in the context of Kurdish contentious politics.
Dr. Gülay Kilicaslan
Contact
Hosting institute
- Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies
Current affiliation
- Carleton University, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Canada
Memberships
Key expertise
- Critical forced migration studies
- Refugee law and politics of citizenship and resettlement
- Nation-state and border violence
- Resistance and social movements in the Global South (particularly in the Middle East)
- Digital activism and culture
Regional expertise
- Türkei
- Kanada
- Kurdistan, Middle East, Central Europe
Profile according to FFVT taxonomy
Scientific topics
- Borders
- Causes Of Displacement
- Identity
- Information And Communication Technologies
- Infrastructure Of Flight / Forced Migration
- Migration Routes, Refugees’ Journeys
- National Refugee And Asylum Policies
- Racism
- Refugee Law
- Self-Organization
- Transnational Networks
Disciplines
- Law
- Sociology
Professional Career
Relevant publications
- Social Trust Among Refugees: Using a Human Rights Lens to Understand Refugee Experiences. In F. M. Moghaddam & M. J. Hendricks (eds.), Immigrants: Psychological Research.2022.American Psychological Association.
- From Solidarity to Exploitation: Lives of Kurdish Forced Migrants in Istanbul (Dayanışmadan Sömürüye: Zorla Yerinden Edilen Kürtlerin İstanbul’dakiYaşamları).2019.beyond.istanbul Journal, 7 (2): pp. 118-126.
- Migrants’ Agency & Right to the City. In Peter Nyers (eds), States of Refuge: Keywords for Critical Refugee Studies.2019.IGHC Working Paper Series, 19 (1): pp. 37-38.
- Forced Migration, Citizenship, and Space: The Case of Syrian Kurdish Refugees in İstanbul .2016.New Perspectives on Turkey, 54, pp. 77–95.DOI.
- Generational Differences in Political Mobilization among Forced Kurdish Migrants: The Case of Kanarya Mahallesi. In Zeynep Gambetti and Joost Jongerden (eds): The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: A Spatial Perspective.2015.Routledge Studies in Middle East Politics, pp. 156-184.DOI.