Dr. Sahizer Samuk received her BA in Political Science and International relations from Bogazici University and her MA in International Relations from Koc University. She had another MA in European Studies, from Luiss Guido Carli in 2011. She did her PhD in Political Science at the IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca (2012-2016). In 2016, she became a research assistant for a project on supporting the development of harmonization (integration) policies in Turkey, employed by IOM Ankara. In 2017-2018 she worked as a post-doc at the University of Luxembourg for a Horizon 2020 project: MOVE. In Italy, she had experiences of being a researcher at the University of Pisa, UBIQUAL, working for a project on outward mobility and migration of the highly skilled from Italy. Currently, she is a Marie Curie research fellow responsible for implementing the project “INSKILLS”, at the department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway. She has various publications on integration policies of migrants in Turkey, temporary migration policies of Canada and the UK, mobility and gender within Europe, time perceptions of authors in exile and highly skilled Italians living abroad. She is also co-editing a handbook on temporary migration with Jenna L. Hennebry and Michael Gordon.
Publications
Samuk, Sahizer; Ince-Beqo, Gül & Hennebry, Jenna L. (2024)
Strategies to Exclude: Temporariness and Return/Readmission Policies of the EU
Migration governance, migration management and migration crises have been key themes among migration scholars and governments over the last decade. Historically, systemic political economic crises are accompanied by the scapegoating of migrants, often as a strategy to shift the focus away from political and economic decisions taken by states. The EU has been no exception, and political and social tensions around migration are arguably at an all-time high, as European governments aim to protect their interests and manage their borders amidst increasing migration pressures globally. In this paper, we will examine these three EU immigration prevention strategies, with a focus on the recently adopted Pact on Migration and Asylum. Specifically, we ask the following research question: what are the roles of temporariness and return/readmission as important EU strategies to hinder, stop, and exclude the movement of migrants to EU (and Schengen)?
Burchi, Sandra & Carignani, Sahizer Samuk (2024)
Una questione culturale. Integrazione e mobilità spaziale
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Burchi, Sandra & Carignani, Sahizer Samuk (2024)
Un buon lavoro. Spostamenti e carriera in tempi di mobilità per gli italiani qualificati all’estero
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Tomei, Gabriele & Samuk, Sahizer (2024)
Uno "spettro" si aggira per l'Europa. Per un'interpretazione circolazionista della mobilità expat
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Carignani, Sahizer Samuk & Burchi, Sandra (2024)
Highly Skilled Italians' Experience with Erasmus Mobility: Opportunities vs. Challenges
14(1) , s. 386- 402.
How does participation in the Erasmus program affect the future mobility and emigration decisions of highly skilled Italians? After conducting 51 semistructured and in-depth online interviews with highly skilled, spatially mobile, emigrant Italians, we used Atlas.ti to analyze each phrase, word, and context in which “Erasmus” appeared. More than two thirds of the interviewees had experienced the program, a substantial number of whom wanted to work in international environments and achieved their goals. A few returned to the city or country of their first Erasmus mobility experience. We argue that the mobility component of the Erasmus program provided the confidence required to be independent and the insight needed to make international comparisons. It also perpetuates the desire to travel abroad (to become spatially mobile) as participants sought additional international environments after the first Erasmus mobility experience, gaining additional self-confidence as a result.
What works to facilitate displaced and refugee-background students’ access and participation in European higher education: results from a multilingual systematic review
Young people involved in geographical mobility face diverse gendered mobility settings and gender inequalities. How do the youth involved in diverse mobility types deal with adverse circumstances caused by gender beliefs and gender prejudices? To answer this question, problem-centred interviews with young people (18-29) are analysed using Grounded Theory. These young people are European citizens and they are involved in five mobility types: higher education, employment, voluntary work, vocational education & training, and entrepreneurship. We apply Emirbayer and Mische’s (1998) categories (iterational, projective and practical-evaluative) to the analysis of gendered mobility narratives as unequal gender perceptions reveal themselves in the context of different types of youth mobility. The analysis allows to see the ways young people reflect on their actions: refusal of gender beliefs, acceptance or rejection of gendered prejudices, individual vs. collective solutions, demand for equality in numbers, comparison of gendered workplaces and assumption of leadership in initiating mobility. At the same time, we observe how geographical mobilities can increase the critical sensibility of youth towards gender inequalities, contributing to new conceptualisation of agentic responses to structural constraints.
