Ibrahim Sirkeci

"Conflict, Migration, Ethnic Minorities and Transnationalism: Turkish and Kurdish Migrations"

Tuesday, Nov. 7 , 2006
4:30 p.m.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Department of Geography, Middle East Studies Center, Clusters of Interdisciplinary Research on International Themes (CIRIT), and Initiative in Population Research.

Ibrahim Sirkeci is a lecturer in Business and Management at Regent's College European Business School in London. He specializes in ethnic conflict and international migration, with a focus on forced migration of ethnic minorities and transnationalism. He has researched international migration from Turkey, Turkish and Kurdish immigrants in Germany, ethnic populations in Iraq and Turkoman, and ethnic differences in Turkey.

Among his recent publications are The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany (Edwin Mellen, 2006), Turkmen in Iraq and International Migration of Turkmen Ankara: Global Strategy Institute (in English and Turkish, 2005), and Ethnicity, Conflict, and International Migration: The Kurds on the Move (Edwin Mellen, forthcoming).

Sirkeci is currently researching a project on ethnic residential segregation in the United Kingdom and its impact on school to work transition, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. He is also co-editor of the biannual Migration Letters.

Ibrahim Sirkeci
Lecturer in Business and Management
European Business School