Selected articles and book chapters

# Authors Year Title Outlet / Publisher
1Triandafyllidou & Şahin-Mencütek, Z.2024Coerced Return: Formal Policies, Informal Practices and Migrants' NavigationJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2024.2371209
2Rottmann & Nimer2026Trapped, Aspiring, Reluctant or Precarious? Exploring Agency in Migrant Trajectories in Turkey and MoroccoJournal of International Migration and Integration (accepted, forthcoming)
3Uzomah, N.L.2025Regional Disparities in Returnee Support, Stigmatisation and Reintegration in NigeriaInternational Migration, 63(5). DOI: 10.1111/imig.70103
4Dinçer, O.B & Şahin-Mencütek, Z.2025Refugee Return, Reintegration, and Citizenship Practices in Post-Conflict SyriaInternational Migration
5Gökalp Aras, N. E.2024The Politics of Care and Control: Governmentality in Turkey's Evolving Border Policy with Reflections from Turkey-EU BordersJournal of Borderlands Studies, 1–21. DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2024.2428636
6Gökalp Aras, N. E.2025The Temporality and Stratification of Refugee Governance in Turkey: An Analysis for Temporary and International Protection from Reception to ReturnCEEMR, 14(2), 253–280. DOI: 10.54667/ceemr.2025.20
7Öztürk, N. Ö.2025Revisiting the Concept of Flexibility in Temporary Protection Practices at the Intersection of International Refugee and Human Rights Laws: The Case of TürkiyeCEEMR, 14(2), 227–251. DOI: 10.54667/ceemr.2025.30
8Yüksel, U.2025Syria in Transition: Political Promises, Economic Challenges, and the Protection Gap in Refugee ReturnsIJHM, 5(1), 147–158. DOI: 10.dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ijhm/article/1706418
9Krępa, M. & Pachocka, M.2026Governing through Alienation: Self-Domination and Agency in Poland's Dual Migration RegimeMigration Studies
10Stel, N.2025The Dog that Barks Doesn't Bite? Non-Performativity in Migration Diplomacy: European-Lebanese Engagement on Refugee Return to SyriaJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
11Stel, N. & Nimer, M.ForthcomingEU Externalization and Coerced Refugee Return from Lebanon to Syria: The Paradoxes of Irregularization and LegibilityMigration Studies
12Haile, D. & Schapendonk, J.2025Patchworking a Temporal Continuum of Care/Control on the Intersection of Migrant Deportation and HealthJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–20
13Şahin-Mencütek, Z., Barthoma, S., Siddikoglu, H.2025Return governance and diplomacy between Türkiye and Afghanistan. International Migration, 63(3), e70037.International Migration
14Davids, T., Van Houte, M. & Jill Alpes, M.2025Mixing Creative and Qualitative Methods: An Appreciative Inquiry into Responsible Knowledge Production for Engaged ScholarsJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–17
15Van Houte, M. & Rast, M.2024Applied Theatre as a Co-Creative Methodology for More Convivial Knowledge Production in Refugee-Receiving CommunitiesSocial Inclusion, 12
16Siddiklogu, H. & Van Houte, M.2026Iran's Expulsion Strategies of Afghan Migrants: The Intersection of Domestic, Bilateral and International PressureMigration Studies (Special Issue)
17Papatzani, E., Hatziprokopiou, P., Kandylis, G. & Koutrolikou, P.In progressKnowledge as Power, Research Ethics as Politics: Reflections from Research on Irregularised Migration in GreeceEthnic and Racial Studies (Special Issue, eds. Kraler & Ruhs)
18Öztürk, N. Ö.2025A Legal Perspective on the Reflections of European Union-Turkey Interaction in the Context of International ProtectionIn B. Akay (Ed.), Turkey-European Union Relations: Problems and Proposed Solutions. Sekin
19Öztürk, N. Ö. & Ovacık, G.2024Assessment of Deportation Practices in the Context of Legislation and Court Decisions on the 10th Anniversary of the Law on Foreigners and International ProtectionIn A.D. Ergin & Y. Kader (Eds.), International Protection and Migration in Turkey. Onikilevia
20Gökalp Aras, N. E.2023An Important Actor in International Migration Governance: The International Organisation for MigrationIn M.H. Boyraz & F. Cicioğlu (Eds.), International Organisations: History, Theory and Examples. NEU Press, Istanbul
21Van Houte, M.2026The Evolution of Governance and Financing of Migration and Development Policy and Politics in EuropeIn The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe, 2nd ed. Routledge
22Van Houte, M. & Schapendonk, J.forthcomingThe Return Migration IndustryKuschminder (Eds.), Return Migration Handbook, 2nd ed. Elgar
23Schapendonk, J.orthcomingFrom Escorts to Empty Vans: Destabilizing Deportation as 'Orderly' Migration GovernanceMobilities
24Schapendonk, J.2024Emergent and Stranded Practices: Infrastructuring Parental Spaces as Anti-Deportation ProtestsIn F. Landau-Donnely et al. (Eds.), Reflecting on Practices: New Directions for Spatial Theories, pp. 107–122. Agenda Publisher
25Triandafyllidou, A., Moghadam, A., Kelly, M. & Şahin-Mencütek, Z. (eds.)2024Migration and Cities: Conceptual and Policy AdvancesIMISCOE Springer Series