Saime Ozcurumez is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University, and a 2015-16 visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She conducts research and publishes on migration policy and politics in the European Union, Turkey, and Canada; health and immigration; gender and immigration; irregular immigration; integration and citizenship; media representation of migrants; comparative politics of deliberative democracy; and the Europeanization research agenda. She has published articles in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Turkish Studies, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Uluslararasi Iliskiler-International Relations, Women’s Studies International Forum, and European Political Science. She is the co-editor of two books: Of States, Rights and Social Closure and Asylum, International Migration and Statelessness: Concepts, Theories and Politics (in Turkish). She is the co-principal investigator of MoBILity Lab at Bilkent University, conducting research and activities on public policy co-construction as well as collaboration focused on immigration and integration policy.

In her Conversations on Europe talk, Ozcurumez will present her work on migration policy and politics, and in particular on the response of health care systems to the recent influx of refugees in the Middle East and Europe.

Sponsors: CES, School of Public Health Office of Global Public Health, WCED.