Yasemin KARADAĞ AVCI

Dr Yasemin Karadağ Avcı is a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Hitit University, Turkey, specialising in international law. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Warwick, with a dissertation titled ‘Legal Integration of Syrian Refugees in Berlin, Germany: A Socio-Legal Study’ (2023). She also holds an LLM in Human Rights Law from Cardiff University of Cardiff and an MA in International Relations from Ankara University.

Yasemin’s research lies at the intersection of refugee law, human rights law, and migration governance, with a particular focus on the legal and socio-legal dimensions of refugee integration in Germany and Turkey. Her work engages critically with issues such as disability, intersectionality, and the everyday experiences of forced migrants navigating legal systems.

She is a member of the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the University of London and a Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff) Association Fellow. Beyond academia, she has significant experience in policy-oriented research and consultancy. She has served as an academic consultant for international organisations, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants (ASAM), contributing to projects on migration management and refugee protection supported by donors such as UN Women and IOM.

Her academic work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Social Inclusion, and is forthcoming in edited collections by Edward Elgar. Yasemin continues to pursue interdisciplinary research that bridges socio-legal studies and international migration, with a particular emphasis on the lived experiences of displaced populations in host countries.