Deniz Şenol Sert is Associate Professor of Department of International Relations at Özyeğin University. Her areas of expertise include conflict studies, forced, international and irregular migration; transnationalism, border management and civil society. Her current project entitled “Urban Implications and Governance of CEE Migration in Europe” is in a partnership with Erasmus Univesity, Netherlands, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Gothenburg University, Sweden, and funded by TÜBİTAK.