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Meltem Yilmaz Sener

Meltem Yilmaz Sener

forsker 2

Academic profile

Meltem Yilmaz Sener, PhD, is a Senior Researcher/Forsker II at the Center for Intercultural Communication at VID Specialized University, Norway. She got her PhD degree in Sociology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the USA in 2010. Previously, she also worked at Nord University as an associate professor and Istanbul Bilgi University as an assistant professor, in addition to holding visiting positions in the US and Norway. Her research interests are in migration, transnational studies, development, social inequality, social policy, and gender.

Fields of expertise

Globalization and regional development
\sociology of work
Transnational migration
Gender and development research
Gender and Gender studies
Development Discourse
Development Studies
Neoliberalism
Gender and migration
Immigration Policy
Social inequalities
Development
Immigration
Comparative social policy
Emigration

Scientific publications

2026

Thai migrant women to Europe’s experiences with family, work, religion, and return migration: A scoping review and thematic analysis 2026 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies - Bjørn Hallstein Holte, Sanjana Arora, Kari Storstein Haug, Meltem Yilmaz Sener, Irene Hunskår, Anne Brit Hatleskog, Szonja Zoltanfi

2023

Varieties of Belonging Among Migrants: Turkish Migrants in Norway 2023 Journal of Economy Culture and Society - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Called to Being Religious Muslims: The Religification of Turkish Women in Norway 2023 Tidsskrift for Islamforskning (TIFO) - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Mass migration due to climate change? A critique of the security focus on climate mobilities Welfare States in a Turbulent Era 2023 - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Living with Multiple Languages, Being Forced to be Monolingual: Turkish Skilled Migrants in Norway 2023 Language, Discourse & Society (LD&S) - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
International migration for poverty alleviation? The neoliberal element in the debates on migration for development and poverty alleviation Research Handbook on Poverty and Inequality 2023 - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Akademisyen olmak, anne olmak, akademisyen anne olmak (Being an academic, a mother, an academic mother) Feminist olan politiktir (What is feminist is political) 2023 - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
The case for an extended understanding of the migration state: regulating migration in Turkey 2023 Problemy Polityki Społecznej - Meltem Yilmaz Sener

Other publications

2019

Adaptation and Identity Shifts After Migration and Return 2019 Workshop on Transnational Processes of Memory, Migration, and Identity - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Brain Drain from Turkey 2019 Migration, return and human rights: The curious case of Turkey - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Gender Dimension of Return Migration 2019 Migration Conference 2019 - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Perceived Discrimination as a Major Reason behind Return Migration From Europe 2019 ESA Conference - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Perceived Discrimination as a Reason for Return Migration? Turkish skilled migrants who returned from Germany and the US 2019 Seminar: Perceived Discrimination as a Reason for Return Migration? - Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Shifts in Identity and Belonging After Migration and Return Migration 2019 ESA Research Network 35 Midterm Conference - Meltem Yilmaz Sener