Dr. Imren Borsuk is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in migration, ethnic conflict, development studies, and urban politics with a specific focus on Turkey and its diasporas. She is researcher at Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies. Prior to this, she was an Einstein Researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

She recently led a project examining the shifting dynamics of diaspora protests in response to the global rise of authoritarianism, with a particular focus on Turkey’s diaspora communities. Her work also explores the implications of democratic backsliding on social coexistence and violence, including comparative analyses of deeply divided societies like Turkey and Northern Ireland. She conducted fieldwork during her PhD in Turkey and Northern Ireland interviewing politicians, civil society representatives and local activists about ongoing violence and security concerns in local level in the aftermath of conflict resolution processes. Her works on Northern Ireland demonstrate the changing aspects of violence and security in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of conflict resolution process.

Additionally, she has contributed to development studies with a focus on gender and intersectionality. I investigated the neoliberalization of development projects, gendered and racialized dispossession, and the social consequences of urban development initiatives.

She has extensive research experience in several countries including Turkey, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Her publications appear in leading journals and publishers like Environment and Planning, European Urban and Regional Studies, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, and Palgrave. In addition, she has received several prestigious fellowships, including the Einstein Research Fellowship and the Swedish Institute Scholarship.

Borsuk, Imren. 2023. Dynamics of Communal Violence in the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict. Commentaries. 3(1): 11–24. https://doi.org/10.33182/tc.v3i1.2308

Borsuk, Imren. 2023. Gendered dispossession and women’s changing poverty by slum/squatter redevelopment projects: A case study from Turkey. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 55 (5): 1190-1206. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X211016864

Borsuk, Imren. and Levin, Paul T. 2021. (Eds.) Social Coexistence and Violence during Turkey’s Authoritarian Transition. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. 21 (2):175-187.https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2021.1909292

Borsuk, Imren; Dinc, Pinar, Kavak, Sinem Kavak; Sayan, Pinar. 2021. Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Resistance in Turkey: Construction, Consolidation, and Contestation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-4213-5#toc