Zeynep Sahin-Mencutek

Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek (Ph.D.) (LinkedIn – X) is a Senior Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) in Germany. She co-leads a Horizon Europe project called GAPs on migrant returns and return policies. She is also a Research Affiliate with the Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University and conducts joint research on the thematic area of Governance of Migration in a Globalizing World. Her research interests include politics of migration, migration governance, return migration, and Middle East politics.

She has published in a wide variety of international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of migration and international politics; besides dozens of book chapters, she also published a monograph, Refugee Governance, State and Politics in the Middle East(Routledge 2018), and recently co-authored the book, Syrian Refugees in Turkey (IMISCOE Series, 2023) and an edited volume titled, Migration and City ( IMISCOE Series, 2024). She is the associate editor of the Journal of Migration Studies and the board member of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.