İlke Şanlıer Yüksel is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at Çukurova University. She has previously worked as a research fellow in the Migration Research Centre at Koç University and as an assistant professor at Doğuş University in Istanbul. She got her BA degree from Sociology Department at Boğaziçi University and a PhD degree from Communication program at Anadolu University. Her research mainly focuses on the sociology of migration. She works on representations of migrants in mainstream media and media’s role in diasporic cultures. She is also interested in transnational politics through mediated settings, visual culture and media ethnography. She has a long experience of field research and ethnographic research on migrants. She served as a researcher for “Transnational Migration in Transition: Transformative Characteristics of Temporary Mobility of People (EURA-NET)” (EU FP7) project for the Turkish team. Her current project deals with Syrian refugees and their media practices.
