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Sahizer Samuk Carignani

Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

Room number A3Y-039
E-mail sahizer.s.carignani@bi.no

Biography

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

Selected Scientific publications Other

Samuk, Sahizer; Ince-Beqo, Gül & Hennebry, Jenna L. (2024)

Strategies to Exclude: Temporariness and Return/Readmission Policies of the EU

Social Sciences, 13(9) Doi: 10.3390/socsci13090448

Carignani, Sahizer Samuk; Ince-Beqo, Gül & Hennebry, Jenna L. (2024)

Strategies to Exclude: Temporariness and Return/Readmission Policies of the EU

Social Sciences, 13(9) Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13090448

Carignani, Sahizer Samuk & Burchi, Sandra (2024)

Highly Skilled Italians' Experience with Erasmus Mobility: Opportunities vs. Challenges

Journal of International Students, 14(1), s. 386- 402. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13090448

Tomei, Gabriele; Maraviglia, Lorenzo, Burchi, Sandra & Samuk, Sahizer (2023)

Giovani che se ne vanno. Le nuove emigrazioni qualificate dei laureati e delle laureate negli Atenei toscani

Edizioni FrancoAngeli.

Samuk, Sahizer; Burchi, Sandra & Kalocsányiová, Erika (2023)

Work and Gender in the Context of Spatial Mobility and Migration: the Case of Highly Skilled Italians Abroad

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 24, s. 1547- 1569.

Carignani, Sahizer Samuk; Rosina, Matilde & Ince-Beqo, Gül (2023)

Like “falling leaves”: The migration of the highly-skilled from Turkey to Italy

La cittadinanza europea online, s. 1- 17.

Kalocsányiová, Erika; Bilici, Natalia, Jenkins, Ryan, Obojska, Maria Antonina & Samuk, Sahizer (2022)

What works to facilitate displaced and refugee-background students’ access and participation in European higher education: results from a multilingual systematic review

Educational review (Birmingham)

This article reports the results of a systematic review on displaced and refugee-background students’ transitioning and (re-)integration into European higher education (HE). A total of 7082 studies have been assessed for eligibility in six languages. Forty-four empirical studies conducted in 14 countries of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) between 2014 and 2021 met the inclusion criteria. Evidence from these studies has been extracted, appraised for quality, and synthesised to advance our understanding of how best to support refugee-background students’ HE aspirations. The main contribution of this article is a comprehensive review of support measures and recommendations in nine key areas that were identified as having particular relevance for successful HE participation: recognition of qualifications, entry requirements, reach and relevance of educational offer, costs, precarity and vulnerability, language, transitioning and skills mismatch, resource poverty, and (un)welcoming environments. The reviewed evidence is relevant in varying degrees to higher education institutions across the EHEA and can inform the delivery of targeted responses to refugee-background students’ needs on both HE entry and throughout their educational journey. The article also exposes important knowledge gaps that should be prioritised in future research and highlights some common lessons regarding cross-sector collaboration, long-term planning and support, and the need for a continuous monitoring of student pathways. A novel aspect of this systematic review is also its multilingual search strategy which was designed to correct for the geographical bias toward research produced in Anglophone countries which is often a by-product of English-only search strategies in education research.

Burchi, Sandra & Samuk, Sahizer (2022)

Being a nomad in one’s home: The case of Italian women during Covid-19

Cambio: Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali

Samuk, Sahizer & Burchi, Sandra (2022)

Preparing for online interviews during Covid-19: the intricacies of technology and online human interaction

SN Social Sciences

Samuk, Sahizer; Tonga, Yesim, Pellegrini, Emanuele & Catoni, Maria Luisa (2022)

Developing a new cultural policy agenda for Pistoia: The current projected role of artists and creative workers in the territory

European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy, s. 1- 12. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/ejcmp.2022.11105

Samuk, Sahizer; Schlimbach, Tabea, Kmiotek-Meier, Emilia, Diaz, Celia, Diaz-Chorne, Laura, Vysotskaya, Volha, Nienaber, Birte, Roman, Monica, Muresan, Laura-Mihaela, Manafi, Ioana & Daubler, Markus (2020)

Agency and Structure Revisited with Youth Responses to Gendered (Spatial) Mobilities in the EU

Border Crossing - Full text in research archive

Herz, Andreas; Diaz-Chorne, Laura, Diaz-Catalan, Celia, Altissimo, Alice & Samuk, Sahizer (2019)

Are you mobile, too? The role played by social networks in the intention to move abroad among youth in Europe

Migration Letters

Samuk, Sahizer; Kmiotek-Meier, Emilia, Nienaber, Birte & Vysotskaya, Volha (2019)

Introduction to Special Issue for Migration Letters: Inequalities and Youth Mobilities in Europe from Comparative Perspectives

Migration Letters

Samuk, Sahizer (2019)

European Union Migration Policies for the Highly Skilled: A Critical Appraisal

Aydın İktisat Fakültesi Dergisi

Samuk, Sahizer & Pabuccular, Hazal (2018)

Aegean in Motion: The Reasons, Consequences, and Tragedies of Four Distinct Phases of Migration in the Aegean Sea

Meltem İzmir Akdeniz Akademisi Dergisi

Samuk, Sahizer (2018)

Metamorphosis of educational understanding: Temporary integration of Syrians in Turkey

Border Crossing

Consterdine, Erika & Samuk, Sahizer (2018)

Temporary Migration Programmes: the Cause or Antidote of Migrant Worker Exploitation in UK Agriculture

Journal of International Migration and Integration

Courtois, Aline; Lomer, Sylvie, Budginaitė-Mačkinė, Irma, Carlson, Sören, Klasik, Daniel, Bamberger, Annette, Nada, Cosmin, Resch, Katharina, Mihut, Georgiana, Franca, Thais, Carignani, Sahizer Samuk, Jayadeva, Sazana, Roohi, Sanam, Jokila, Suvi, McKinley, Keanen, Aerts, Nathalie, Erdogan, Zahide, Yang, Ying, Aguiar, Joyce, Tavares, Orlanda, Härkönen, Anu, Ballatore, Magali, Levatino, Antonina, Kaya Kasikci, Sevgi & Zayim Kurtay, Merve (2024)

Social Inequalities in International Student Mobility: A Systematic Literature Review

[Report]. Centre for Global Higher Education.

Kalocsányiová, Erika; Hassan, Rania, Obojska, Maria Antonina & Carignani, Sahizer Samuk (2024)

Sustainability literacy in non-STEM higher education programmes: results from a multilingual systematic scoping review

[Report]. University of Greenwich.

Samuk, Sahizer; Nienaber, Birte, Kmiotek-Meier, Emilia, Vysotskaya, Volha, Skrobanek, Jan, Ardic, Tuba, Pavlova, Irina, Marinescu, Daniela Elena & Muresan, Laura-Mihaela (2021)

Learning in Transition: Erasmus+ as an Opportunity for Internationalization

Cairns, David (red.). The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration

Samuk, Sahizer; Acuner, Derya & Tonga, Yesim (2021)

From forced migration to mobility: Dreaming of home within ‘rooted mobilities’

Cairns, David (red.). The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration

Academic Degrees
Year	Academic Department	Degree
2016	IMT School for Advanced Studies, Italy	PhD