Ilker Ataç Editor & Author

Ilker Ataç is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Gerda Heck is assistant professor at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo. Her research focus on migration and border regimes, urban studies, transnational migration, migrant networks and self-organizing, religion and new concepts of citizenship. Since 2011 she has undertaken research on Congolese migrants and refugees in Turkey. Sabine Hess is professor of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen since 2011. She specializes in migration and border studies focusing on forms of transnationalisation and Europeanisation with a specific interest in the external border region in South-Eastern Europe. She is a founding member of the European interdisciplinary »Network on critical migration and border studies« (kritnet) and member of the editorial board of »movements. Journal on Critical Border and Migration Regime Studies«. Zeynep Kasli is currently an affiliated researcher at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society at the Leiden University and guest professor at the Vienna University, Political Science Department. Her research topics include citizenship, minority and migrants' rights, multi-level governance of mobility, diversity and borders. Philipp Ratfisch is a doctoral candidate at the University of Osnabrück, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), and a founding member of "movements". Cavidan Soykan is a dismissed lecturer in human rights specialised in refugee rights and Turkish asylum law and a member of Mülteci-Der. Bediz Yilmaz-Bayraktar is an urban sociologist and was until August 2016 Assistant Professor at the University of Mersin. She is a signatory of the petition "Academics for Peace" and currently fellow at the University of Osnabrück.