KERIME PINAR OZKAN

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVII
email: kerimepinar.ozkan@uniroma1.it
building: Lettere e Filosofia, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 - CU003




supervisor: Prof. Fabio Grassi
co-supervisor: Prof. F. Grassi

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.

Research products

11573/1735908 - 2025 - The migration of Pomaks from Bulgaria to Türkiye in the initial decade of the Turkish Republic (1923-1933)
Ozkan, Kerime Pinar - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Tra passato e presente. Dinamiche di cambiamento nello spazio ottomano - (9788833657684)

11573/1667943 - 2022 - Bulgaria’s Turkish minority and Turkey-Bulgaria relations 1923-1939
Ozkan, Kerime Pinar - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: EURAS JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (İstanbul: İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi) pp. 245-260 - issn: 2757-7988 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

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