Exploring Boundaries Between the "Modern" and "Islam": An Ethnographic Study
Özge Aktaş Ph.D, is a sociologist and researcher at the Urban Studies Research Centre (USRC) at Istanbul Sehir University. From 2005-2009, she completed her doctoral studies at the Sociology Department of the University of Sussex and at the Sussex Centre for Migration Studies (SCMR). During her studies, she worked at the University of Sussex as a research assistant at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) in projects related to development and social networks. She holds an M.A. degree from the University of Essex and a B.A. degree from Bogaziçi University, both in Sociology. Her research interests are internal and international migration, poverty and social exclusion, social networks and social capital and urban sociology.
Her current projects focus on world migration flows, Turkish migration flows and migrant profiles, as well as the Bursa metropolitan area. As a Global Prayers Fellow, she is working together with Eda Ünlü-Yücesoy on the project 'Exploring Boundaries Between the "Modern" and "Islam”: An Ethnographic Study'.
