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Nefise Ela Gokalp Aras she/her

Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

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About

Dr N. Ela Gokalp-Aras is a senior research fellow at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). She recently completed her role as the Principal Investigator of the “RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond Project” Project. She has a BA degree in International Relations from Ankara University (2000), and an MSc (2005) and a PhD (2013) in Sociology from the Middle East Technical University. Her research and teaching experience focus on European integration, EU–Turkey relations, international organisations, international migration (irregular and transit) and asylum regimes, border management, security (particularly human security) and international human rights. Gokalp-Aras published many articles for international peer-reviewed journals and chapters in several edited volumes and numerous reports and policy briefs in the fields of migration governance and EU–Turkey relations such as Türkiye’de Mültecilik: Koruma, Kabul ve Entegrasyon, Bilgi University Press (2021); “Right to Health and Access to Healthcare for Refugees in Turkey”, Journal of Service Marketing (2021); "Migration Emergencies and Multi-Level Governance at the EU–Turkey Border" in Civil Society Knowledge Journal (2020); “A Game Changer in EU-Turkey Relations: The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Migration Policy” in The International Spectator (2019); “Coercive Engineered Syrian Mass Migration in the EU-Turkey Relations: A Case Analysis for Future Reference” in International Migration Journal (2019). She is the director of the Migration Research Centre of the Association of Development, Migration and Social Policies (DEMIS-MIREC). She is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Human Mobility (IJHM).

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, Comparative Politics, Development, Environmental Policy, European Union, Foreign Policy, Gender, Governance, Human Rights, Integration, International Relations, Migration, Policy Analysis, Security, Social Policy, Political Sociology, Immigration, Methods, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Asylum, Climate Change, Euroscepticism, Mixed Methods, NGOs, Policy Change, Policy Implementation, Policy-Making, Refugee

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