Turkish Migration Policy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781910781135)

Ibrahim Sirkeci is Ria Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing and the Director of the Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies (RCTS) at Regent's University London (UK). He is a graduate of the University of Sheffield (PhD) and Bilkent University (BA). Prior to joining Regent's University London, Sirkeci had worked at the University of Bristol. His main areas of expertise are human mobility, labour markets, remittances, transnational marketing and consumers and segmentation. He is the editor of several journals including Migration Letters and G? Dergisi. His recent books include Turkish Migration, Identity and Integration (TPLondon, 2015 with B. D. Seker, A. Caglar), Family and Human Capital in Turkish Migration (TPLondon, 2015 with N. Milewski, M. Yucesahin, A. Rolls), Migration and Remittances during the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond (World Bank, 2012 with J. Cohen and D. Ratha), and Cultures of Migration, the global nature of contemporary mobility (University of Texas Press, 2011 with J. Cohen). He has been chairing the Turkish Migration Conferences since 2012. Sirkeci can be contacted at www.sirkeci.co.uk Barbara Pusch studied Sociology, Turkology, Philosophy, and Ethnology at the University of Vienna. She received her PhD at the University of Vienna with a dissertation on the Green movement in Turkey and then went on to complete various projects on women and Islam in Turkey. She now concentrates on migration studies as her main research topic and has been involved in several international projects on migration to and through Turkey. Most recently, as a Mercator-IPC Fellow, she has focused on Turkey as a target country for migration and Turkish migration law. Since November 2015, she works as a Research Assistant to the Director at the Orient-Institut Istanbul.