The Migration Conference 2025 Selected Papers

Dr. iur. Ülkü Sezgi Sözen, LL.M., is a Research Associate, Programme Coordinator at the Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy Graduate School of Law, and Head of the Joint Study Program Law Hamburg/Istanbul at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg. Her core research interests lie at the intersection of European and International Migration Law and Policy, including Asylum and Refugee Law, with a particular focus on the impact of digitalisation and artificial intelligence in migration. Dr. Sözen also specializes in Turkish Law (especially Constitutional, Nationality, and Foreigners’ Law), European Law (soft-law instruments and external migration policy), and Public International Law (human rights and comparative law). She earned her Dr. iur. (2020) and LL.M. (2013) from University of Hamburg with scholarships. Her dissertation explored "Association to the EU and migration policies with special reference to Mediterranean third countries." Dr. Sözen has been actively teaching European Migration Law and Policy, Turkish Law, and courses on 'Migration in Global Context' and 'Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence in Migration' since 2014. She is an executive team member of "The Migration Conference" and holds a qualification as a Professional Individual Academic Coach.

Professor Dr. İbrahim Sirkeci is a prominent academic entrepreneur and researcher specializing in Migration, Population Studies, Strategy and Marketing, with a career spanning three decades across various universities in the UK, Europe, and Türkiye. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Sheffield (2003) and has held professorships and leadership roles at institutions including Regent's University London (where he was Professor of Transnational Studies & Marketing and Director of the Regent's Centre for Transnational Business and Management), the University of Salford Business School, and the International Business School, Manchester, UK. Prof. Sirkeci's research focuses on international migration, internal migration, population movements, labor markets, ethnic conflict, and minorities. His work has been published in esteemed journals such as Work, Employment and Society and Ethnic and Racial Studies. In addition to his academic roles, he is the founder of the well-established independent publishing house, Transnational Press London, and established the annual Migration Conferences. He has also served as a chief editor for several academic journals, and has written a weekly column for the Turkish daily newspaper Birgün since 2008.