Research: Crossing Boundaries: Transnational social fields of Turkish forced migrants from Bulgaria to Türkiye (1989)
Kerime Pınar Özkan received her Bachelor's Degree (2017) in International Relations from Uludağ University in Türkiye. In addition to her university education, she attended Italian language courses to learn another foreign language. And she obtained the certification of Italian as a foreign language which is called CILS for the B2 level in April 2018. Consequently, she graduated in International Sciences (European Studies curriculum) from the University of Turin in December 2020 with a thesis entitled “Perspectives of Turkish Cypriot political parties towards the Cyprus problem”. Since 2021, she is a PhD candidate in History of Europe with a project entitled “Crossing boundaries: Transnational social fields of Turkish forced migrants from Bulgaria to Türkiye (1989)”. During her PhD, she was a visiting PhD researcher for 6 months at Bursa Technical University in Bursa (Türkiye). She examined first-hand the transnational activities of Turks of Bulgaria in the city of Bursa, which is her research field, and their transnational ties with Bulgaria.
Her research interests are sociology of migration, migration policies, transnational ties of migrants, diaspora, Balkan migrants in Türkiye, the Balkans, Türkiye.