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I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Erfurt, in the Department of Media and Communication Studies. My current research focuses on the role of digital media in the construction of political knowledge among young Turkish immigrants in Germany, as they navigate their integration process. By examining the ways in which these individuals use digital media to form and maintain their egocentric networks, I aim to shed light on the complex relationships between media, migration, political integration, and constructing political knowledge. With a passion for media and communication studies, I am dedicated to advancing our understanding of these important and timely topics.

Dr. Gaye Güngör is a Research Associate at the Universite Clermont Auvergne and serves on Advisory Board of MIRR Alliance. Before joining the University, she was a non-resident Affiliate of the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies between 2016 and 2018 and an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Gediz University from 2011 to 2016 and Faculty Research Associate at the Gediz Migration Research Center (MIREG) and Gediz University Gender Studies Center (GENDES).
She earned her Ph.D in Political Science from Florida International University and was a Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow at the European University Institute between 2008-10. She was the syndicate leader from 2014-16 at the Comprehensive Cooperation Practitioner Seminar of NATO and recipient of the June 2014 Doha-Santander Collaborative Research Grant of the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School.
Her research lies at the intersection of the politics and global governance of migration, environment and trade. Gaye Güngör is the co-editor of " Multilateralism in Global Governance: Formal and Informal Institutions” (Peter Lang 2016).
A native of Turkey, Gaye Güngör is fluent in English, French, Spanish and German.

Sociologist interested in migration, discrimination and ethnic minorities.

Award-winning filmmaker and PhD fellow at VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) & UC3M (University Carlos III of Madrid) researching Migration, Borders and Cinema in the ERC Starting Grant Project REEL BORDERS. More info: https://reelborders.eu/Irene-profile

Dr. Karlijn Haagsman is currently Assistant Professor of Globalisation & Development at Maastricht University with a focus on Transnational Migration.

Karlijn has obtained a Bachelor and Master degree in Cultural Anthropology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, and subsequently completed a 2-year Research Master termed ‘Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism’ at the University of Utrecht. From 2010-2014 she was a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. Her PhD research focused on the effects of transnational parent-child separation on the well-being of Angolan and Nigerian migrant parents in the Netherlands and was part of the TCRAf_Eu project. After that she did a post-doc on the effects of mobility on the well-being of youth of migrant background as part of the MO-TRAYL Project.

Her expertise lies in transnationalism, transnational families, migration studies, family studies and migrant youth. Her work is based in migration sociology and cultural anthropology.