Dr Dogus Simsek
Contact
- Email: d.simsek@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- School: School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Department: Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology
About
My research focuses on social inequalities, migration and political sociology from an intersectional perspective. 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, 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).
Academic responsibilities
Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology
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