Lülüfer Körükmez is a PhD and working in Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) Izmir branch. Before joining HRFT, she was an Assistant Professor at Ege University, Izmir until her dismissal by an emergency decree on January 2017. she gave migration sociology, and international migration and gender courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. She gained her Ph.D. in sociology from Ege University, Izmir; her thesis title was Transnational Migration Networks and Building of Social Fields: A Sociological Research on Labour Migration from Armenia to Turkey. She has published on migration within Turkey and its regions.
