Deniz S. Sert is Professor at the Department of International Relations, Ozyegin University, Istanbul. Before joining OzU, she was a Senior Research Associate at the Migration Research Center, Koç University, Istanbul. An expert on migration issues in Turkey and globally, she has taught and researched at several institutions domestically and abroad. She received her BA in International Relations from Koç University, an MSc in European Union Policy Making from the London School of Economics, and an MPhil in Political Science from the City University of New York. She gained her PhD in Comparative Politics from the City University of New York; her thesis title was: The Property Rights of Conflict-Induced Internally Displaced People: Ideals, Realities, Lessons. She has published extensively on international migration within Turkey and its regions in journals such as International Migration, Journal of Refugee Studies, New Perspectives on Turkey, Ethnopolitics; and contributed in many edited volumes on related subjects.
