Nefise Ela Gökalp Aras
Dr. N. Ela Gökalp-Aras is a senior research fellow at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). She is the Principal Investigator of the “RESPOND: Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond Project” Project. She is a member of research teams for WP1 (Legal & Policy Framework), WP2 (Border Management and Migration Controls, WP3 (Refugee Protection Regimes), WP4 (Reception), WP5 (Integration), WP6 (Conflicting Europeanization) and WP8 (Comparative and Prescriptive Analysis). Dr Gökalp-Aras is also the co-leader of both the Work Package 3 (Refugee protection regimes) and the Work Package 8 (Comparative and Prescriptive Analysis). She has a BA degree in International Relations from Ankara University (2000), and an MSc (2005) and a PhD (2013) in Sociology from the Middle East Technical University. Her research and teaching experience focus on European integration, EU–Turkey relations, international organisations, international migration (irregular and transit) and asylum regimes, border management, security (particularly human security) and international human rights. Gökalp-Aras published many articles for international peer-reviewed journals and chapters in several edited volumes and numerous reports and policy briefs in the fields of migration governance and EU–Turkey relations such as Türkiye’de Mültecilik: Koruma, Kabul ve Entegrasyon, Bilgi University Press (2021); “Right to Health and Access to Healthcare for Refugees in Turkey”, Journal of Service Marketing (2021); "Migration Emergencies and Multi-Level Governance at the EU–Turkey Border" in Civil Society Knowledge Journal (2020); “A Game Changer in EU-Turkey Relations: The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Migration Policy” in The International Spectator (2019); “Coercive Engineered Syrian Mass Migration in the EU-Turkey Relations: A Case Analysis for Future Reference” in International Migration Journal (2019). She is the director of the Migration Research Centre of the Association of Development, Migration and Social Policies (DEMIS-MIREC). She is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Human Mobility.