Meriç Çağlar is a PhD candidate (a.b.d) in Gender Studies at Central European University. She completed her MAs at Rovira i Virgili (Euro-Mediterranean Relations) and Pompeu Fabra (Migration Management) Universities in Spain. She worked as a gender and forced migration researcher and consultant with academic and international organizations. Currently, she is working on her PhD project ‘Gendered Vulnerabilities, Precarities and Temporalities: Refugee Women Under International Protection in Turkey”. Her research interests lie in the area of; gender and asylum, intersectionality in migration studies, refugee protection and integration in Turkey, migrant deservingness.