Sedef Turper

Overview

Sedef Turper is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Koç University and serves as an executive board member of the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc).

Her lie in migration studies and public opinion research. She is particularly interested in attitudes towards immigrants, migration policy preferences and migration aspirations. She has contributed to several edited books and her work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Indicators Research, and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, among others.

Recent and Select Publications

Bayer, R., Turper, S., and Woods, J. (2022). “Teamwork within a Senior Capstone Course: Implementation and Assessment.” PS: Political Science & Politics. 55 (4): 828–33.

Salman, S., Yücel, E., Kayı, İ., Turper-Alışık, S., and Coşkun, A. (2021). “Modeling Mobile Health Service Delivery to Syrian Migrant Farm Workers Using Call Record Data.” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 77: 101005.

Turper-Alışık, S., Bayraktar Aksel, D., Yantaç, A. E., Kayi, İ., Salman, S., İçduygu, A., Çay, D., Baruh, L., and Bensason, I. (2019). “Seasonal Labor Migration Among Syrian Refugees and Urban Deep Map for Integration in Turkey.” In A. A. Salah, A. Pentland, B. Lepri, & E. Letouzé (Eds.), Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios (pp. 305–328). Springer.

Turper, S. (2017). “Fearing what? Vignette experiments on anti-immigrant sentiments.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 43(11), 1792–1812.

Turper, S., Iyengar, S., Aarts, K., and van Gerven, M. (2015). “Who is Less Welcome?: The Impact of Individuating Cues on Attitudes towards Immigrants.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 41(2), 239–259.

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