Post-doc
IFEA, Istanbul, Turquie
Biography
Elif Aksaz holds a PhD degree in Sociology from the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She is postdoctoral researcher at the IFEA in Istanbul where she coordinates the “migration and mobilities” research axis. She teaches “Fieldwork sociology. International and internal migration” at Galatasaray University. She is also an associate member of the European Center of Sociology and Political Science at the Sorbonne, CESSP-Paris. Her research themes are the following: Turkey and Turkish women, immigration, emigration and rural exodus, sociability, marriage and family, history of social sciences.
Research project
“The development of research and migration in Turkey: reflexive and historical perspectives”
This research project will examine from a reflexive and historical perspective the development of the research on immigration in Turkey and the analyses produced on immigration by Turkish social sciences. The studies on internal migration – from rural areas to urban areas – in Turkey constitute an abundant literature. This is the case also of the studies on immigrant populations in Turkey from Bulgaria, Caucasus, etc, designed as “from the same ethnic group” (soydaş, in Turkish). These studies realized from the end of 1950s on immigration in a broad sense (on the arrival of the populations in Turkish cities from villages and on the arrival of the populations in Turkey from other countries) have not been articulated. They have also not been articulated with studies recently undertaken on immigration of Syrian, African, Russian, etc. populations in Turkey. This is what the project proposes to do, by adopting a broad definition of “immigration”.
Keywords
Turkey, immigration, emigration, rural exodus, history of social sciences