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Dr. Basak Bilecen
Born 1982; she earned her BA degree in International Relations from Koc University in Istanbul. Her honors project was about the comparison of citizenship regimes as a result of international migration in Europe, Canada and Australia. She earned her master´s degree in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam (IMES) in Migration and Ethnic Studies. Her master thesis´ topic was the networks of human smuggling which operate between the Middle East and the European Union. She focused on smuggled migrants in the Netherlands coming from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan while highlighting the significance of Turkey as a major transit zone.
In 2012 she earned her doctoral degree from University of Bielefeld (BGHS) in Sociology. Her dissertation is about social support networks and identification of international PhD students in Germany.
Currently she is working at Bielefeld University in Collaborative Research Center ´From Heterogeneities to Inequalities´ and conducting research on informal social protection ties of Turkish migrants.
She is interested at international doctoral students as a subset of highly-skilled migrants, their transnational networks and changing identities. She has been teaching at Bielefeld University since 2007 about diverse subjects in international migration issues concerning irregular and transit migration, transnational studies, theories and policies of migration as well as social inequality.
Key activities
- Education and migration
- Migration and gender
- Migration and health
- Migration politics in Europe
- Migration politics nationally
- Migration research
- Migration worldwide/in Europe
- Professional/social/cultural integration
- Rights of foreigners and asylum seekers
Publications
- Bilecen, Basak (2013): Negotiating Differences: Cosmopolitan Experiences of International Doctoral Students, Compare: A Journal of International and Comparative Education; Special Issue: Education, Mobilities and Migration: People, Ideas and Resources, 43(5): 667-688
- Bilecen, Basak (2013): Turkish PhD Students Drawn to US and Germany, University World News
- Bilecen, Basak (2013): Analyzing Informal Social Protection Across Borders:Synthesizing Social Network Analysis with Qualitative Interviews, SFB Working Paper Series, No. 19. German Research Foundation: Bielefeld.
- Bilecen, Basak (2013): Coming-out multi-lokal: Intersektionelle Rekonstruktion von Sexualität und Transnationalität, COMCAD Working Paper, No.144, Bielefeld: COMCAD. (co-authored with K. Barglowski and A. Amelina)
- Bilecen, Basak (2013): On the tide between being an insider and outsider: experiences from the research on international student mobility in Germany, In L. Voloder and L. Kirpitchenko (eds.), Insider Research on Migration and Mobility, pp. 86-113. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Bilecen, Basak (2012): How Social Support Works among the Best and the Brightest: Evidence from International PhD Students in Germany, Transnational Social Review - A Social Work Journal, Special Issue: Transnational Networks, 2 (2): 139-155.
- Bilecen, Basak (2012: Ties that Protect: The Significance of Transnationality for the Distribution of Informal Social Protection in Migrant Networks, SFB Working Paper Series, No.6. (co-authored with with Anna Amelina, Karolina Barglowski and Thomas Faist)
- Bilecen-Süoglu, Basak (2012): Trends in Student Mobility from Turkey to Germany, Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs, Special Issue: 50 Years of Migration from Turkey to Germany: Current Perspectives and Historical Backgrounds, Vol. 17, Summer Issue: 61-84.
- Bilecen, Basak (2009): Lost in Status? Temporary, Permanent, Potential, Highly Skilled: The International Student Mobility, COMCAD Working Paper, No. 63, Bielefeld: COMCAD.
- Bilecen, Basak (2008): Human Smuggling Networks Operating via Turkey into the EU: Evidence from Iranian, Iraqi and Afghani Migrants in the Netherlands In The Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association, Re-Imagining Sociology edited by Tim Marjoribanks, The University of Melbourne.
Contact
Bielefeld University
Dr. Basak Bilecen
33615 Bielefeld
Germany
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