The Problem with Turkey’s Syrian “Guests”
This article was made possible by the Study Abroad Think Tank project sponsored by Georgia State University. The revolution-turned-civil war in Syria, which...
Gulcan Saglam is a PhD candidate and research/teaching assistant in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University. Her work focuses on the political economy of state responses to forced migration, and centers specifically on the factors affecting the inclusion or exclusion of refugees from labor markets. Her interests include identity and interest formation, forced migration, political economy, politics of the Middle East, and particularistic politics. She has conducted research across Iraq, Syria and Turkey, and has written on Middle East politics for numerous think tanks in Turkey. Gulcan recently participated in a GSU Study Abroad Think Tank project to address the politics of Muslim civil society, the role of Turkey as a regional power, and its response to Syrian refugee crisis. She believes that “Research on questions relating to human suffering can only be justified if its objective is to alleviate that suffering.” (David Turton, 1996)