Dr Dogus Simsek

Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology
School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
Penrhyn Road

Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology

[email protected]

About

My research focuses on social inequalities, migration and political sociology from an intersectional perspective. It is concerned with the impact of everyday bordering on racialised minorities including diaspora communities, refugees and undocumented migrants particularly in the Global South from an intersectional perspective. It is anchored in critical, interdisciplinary, transnational and global approaches to migration and displacement with a particular focus on the constructions of race, ethnicity, class and gender.

I hold fellowships at IWM (Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna and at the Calcutta Research Group (CRG) in Kolkata. I am an associated senior research fellow at the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, Boston, and the Migration Research Centre at Koc University, Istanbul.

My recent ethnographic research (2022–23) 'Remaking home in the face of racism: Multicultural conviviality in the cases of London and Istanbul' was funded by Kingston University. My previous research (2017–18) 'Race, Migration and Belonging: Africans in Istanbul' funded by the Institute for International Cooperation of the Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband e.V. (DVV), using visual ethnography and participant observation at the churches and workplaces of African migrants, explored the experiences of temporality, everyday life struggles and the processes of racialisation with a particular focus on gender and race.

Following my PhD, I was awarded a grant from TUBITAK (the Turkish research council) to explore the racialisation of Syrian refugees and their experiences in accessing the labour market, housing and education in Turkey. I am author of Am I Less British? Racism, Belonging, the Children of Refugees and Immigrants in North London (UCL Press, 2024), 'Cabuk Cabuk': Africans in Istanbul (Pencere Yayinlari, 2018, published in English and Turkish), and Ulusasiri Kimlikler: Londra'da Kibrisli Turk, Kurt ve Turk Gocmen Cocuklari (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2016).

Qualifications

Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK, 2024
PhD, Sociology, City, University of London
MA, Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
BA (First Class), Media and Communication Systems, Istanbul Bilgi University

Domains

My broader research interests include the anthropology of migration and lie at the intersection of migration, race and class. My research is concerned with the impact of everyday bordering on racialised minorities including diaspora communities, refugees and undocumented migrants particularly in the Global South from an intersectional perspective. It is anchored in critical, multidisciplinary, transnational and global approaches to forced migration and displacement with particular attention to structures of race, ethnicity and class.

I hold fellowships at IWM (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna and at the Calcutta Research Group (CRG) in Kolkata. I am an associated senior research fellow at the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, Boston, and the Migration Research Centre at Koç University, Istanbul.

Over the last few years, I gave invited talks and lectures at universities such as the University of Edinburgh, the Lebanese American University, ETH Zurich, the American University of Beirut, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Roskilde University, Oxford Brookes University, the University of Kassel and Istanbul University and the events organised by international organisations and stakeholders such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Oxfam, the International Migration Organisation (IOM), and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).

I also reviewed research grants for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the French National Research Agency (ANR), and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB?TAK).

I have served internationally as an external examiner of PhD theses (e.g. Coventry University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona).

Research student supervision

Mr Ali Kiresci
Mr Robert Amato Lastman

I am keen to supervise students interested in exploring migration, and the intersections between migration, displacement, race, and class.

Specialisms

Sociology
Migration
Race and racism

Publications

Forced displacement and access to the labour market: the case of Gaziantep

Simsek, Dogus, 2021, Refugee Watch (58) pp 57-70, Published

Dr Dogus Simsek

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