Mert Koçak is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University. He is currently a scholar affiliate at the University of Vienna and an associated PhD Student at Centre Français de Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Prague. He was a fellow at New Europe College, Bucharest and a non-resident fellow at Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna. He holds an MSc degree in Human Rights from London School of Economics and Political Science and an MA degree in Gender Studies from Central European University. His research interests are transnational migration studies, migration industries, queer migration studies and anthropology of policy and bureaucracy.
