Submissions are invited to the tracks of special sessions on Kurdish Migration and Diaspora at the 4th Turkish Migration Conference 2016 hosted by the University of Vienna from Tuesday 12 July to Friday 15 July 2016.
This particular track aims to attract papers on Kurdish migration and diaspora communities. The conveners particularly encourage comparative and interdisciplinary papers focusing on the following issues, with regards to Kurds, Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora, though submissions on any relevant area of interest are welcome: (a) Kurdish migration, border crossings, zones, (b) displacement, asylum and Kurdish migration, (c) borders, regions and languages, (d) nationalism, ethnicity and migration in Kurdish context, (e) checkpoints, minefields and militarized geographies, (f) Kurdish migration and cross- fertilization, (g) mobility, state boundaries and sovereignty, (h) gender and Kurdish migration, (i) Kurdish migration and identity, (j) education and Kurdish migration, (k) Kurdish arts, literature and migration, (l) statelessness, mobility and conflict, (m) trade and mobility, (n) Kurdish migration, sexuality and health, (o) Kurdish migration and the environment.
TMC conferences are unique in its dynamic, complex focus on Turkish migration. The scientific programme organizes papers around thematic topics and includes invited talks, oral presentations and workshops. The conference will start with the Opening Plenary in the late afternoon of July 12th. Given by the two distinguished scholars in migration studies, Thomas Faist and Karen Phalet, the opening session sets the theme and tone for the TMC 2016. In subsequent panels, a number of well-known scholars will contribute to the debates over four days of stimulating exchange.
The Turkish Migration Conferences’ goal is to facilitate the inter-disciplinary exchange of knowledge and provide an outstanding opportunity to meet fellow researchers working on a wide array of topics and themes. Participants in the conference also have the opportunity to submit their work to Migration Letters, Kurdish Studies, Göç Dergisi, Journal of Gypsy Studies. There will also be opportunities to contribute to the edited books. Submissions of papers and posters are welcome from scholars, experts, policy makers and PhD students. We will convene in the W29 building, University of Vienna, one of the oldest universities in Europe. Vienna’s city centre with its historical buildings, museums and exhibitions is only paces away from the conference venue. We look forward to seeing you in Vienna, and if you have any questions please contact us at: welatzeydan@hotmail.com.
Track Conveners: Dr Welat Zeydanlıoğlu, Dr Joost Jongerden, Dr Bahar Başer.
About Turkish Migration Conference
Turkish Migration Conferences were launched in 2012 when the first large scale well attended scholarly academic event on Turkish migration hosted by Regent’s Centre for Transnational Studies in Regent’s Park campus of Regent’s University London. The third conference was hosted by Charles University Prague from 25 to 27 June 2015.
Turkish Migration Conferences entertain a select group of speakers from the US and Europe including Thomas Faist of Bielefeld University (Germany), Philip Martin of University of California Davis (USA), Douglas Massey of Princeton University (USA), Caroline Brettell of Southern Methodist University (USA), Jeffrey Cohen of Ohio State University (USA), Ibrahim Sirkeci of Regent’s University London (UK), Kemal Kirişçi of Bogazici University (Turkey), Nedim Gürsel of CNRS, France, Gudrun Biffl of Krems University (Austria), and Tariq Modood of University of Bristol (UK), and Karen Phalet of KU Leuven (Belgium).
Conference Chair
Ibrahim Sirkeci, Regent’s University London, UK
Jeffrey H. Cohen, Ohio State University, US
Philip L Martin, University of California Davis, US
Track Chairs
Samim Akgönül, University of Strasbourg, France
Ayşe Gedik, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Medine Sivri, Osmangazi University, Turkey
Güven Şeker, Celal Bayar University, Turkey
Ali Tilbe, Namik Kemal University, Turkey
Mustafa Murat Yüceşahin, Ankara University, Turkey
Welat Zeydanlioglu, Kurdish Studies, Sweden
Sinan Zeyneloğlu, Zirve University, Turkey
Conference Advisory Committee
Ela Gökalp Aras, Gediz University, Turkey
İlker Ataç, University of Vienna, Austria
Bahar Başer, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Gudrun Biffl, Danube University Krems, Austria
Tuncay Bilecen, Kocaeli University, Turkey
Sema Buz, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Dilek Cindoğlu, Abdullah Gul University, Turkey
Yaprak H. Civelek, Istanbul Arel University, Turkey
Ali Çağlar, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Özlen Çelebi, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Didem Danış, Galatasaray University, Turkey
Saniye Dedeoğlu, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Turkey
Oğuzhan Ömer Demir, Giresun University, Turkey
Mehmet Ali Dikerdem, Middlesex University, UK
Dalkhat Ediev, IIASA and NCSHT Academy, Austria
Nuray Ekşi, Yeditepe University, Turkey
Tahire Erman, Bilkent University, Turkey
Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, Germany
Sarah E. Hackett, Bath Spa University, UK
Joost Jongerden, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Sibel Kalaycıoğlu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Ayhan Kaya, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Mehmet Rauf Kesici, Kocaeli University, Turkey
Kuvvet Lordoğlu, Kocaeli University, Turkey
Altay Manço, Institut de Recherche, Formation et Action sur les Migrations, Belgium
Fulya Memişoğlu, Çukurova University, Turkey
Nadja Milewski, University of Rostock, Germany
Mustafa Mutluer, Ege University, Turkey
Liza M. Mügge, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mehmet Okyayuz, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Maktoba Omar, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Karen Phalet, KU Leuven, Belgium
Barbara Pusch, Orient-Institut Istanbul & Istanbul Policy Center (Sabanci University), Turkey
Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna, Austria
Deniz Şenol Sert, Özyeğin University, Turkey
Levent Soysal, Kadir Has University, Turkey
Sabine Strasser, University of Bern, Switzerland
Wadim Strielkowski, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Betül Dilara Şeker, Celal Bayar University, Turkey
Güven Şeker, Celal Bayar University, Turkey
Helga Rittersberger Tılıç, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Deniz Eroglu Utku, Trakya University, Turkey
Östen Wahlbeck, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sutay Yavuz, TODAIE, Turkey
Pınar Yazgan, Sakarya University, Turkey
Local Organisation Committee
Ali Tilbe, Namık Kemal University, Turkey
Anett Condick-Brough, Regent’s University London, UK
Burcu Oskay, Transnational Press London, UK
Deniz Özalpman, University of Vienna, Austria
Emine Akman, Celal Bayar University, Turkey
Fethiye Tilbe, Namık Kemal University, Turkey
Güven Şeker, Celal Bayar University, Turkey
Ibrahim Sirkeci, Regent’s University London, UK
İlker Ataç, University of Vienna, Austria
- Murat Yüceşahin, Ankara University, Turkey
Sidar Çınar, Regent’s University London, UK
Important Deadlines:
19/01/ 2016: Abstract/Paper submission deadline
12/04/2016: Early bird registration deadline
12/05/2016: Submission of revised versions of accepted abstracts
12/07/2016: Final registration deadline to attend
On behalf of the Conference Committee
Kurdish Studies Network 