Doctoral student
Sociology
Main research or teaching areas:
- International Migration and Refugee Studies
- Queer and Feminist Theories
- Qualitative Methodology
Current research:
In my dissertation project, The Sexuality of Asylum: Experiences of Queer Iranians in Turkey (preliminary title), I seek to explore the everyday life worlds and migratory experiences of Iranian sexual dissidents who seek temporary asylum and wait for resettlement in Turkey. For this study, I conducted multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in different refugee (re-)settlement cities in Turkey and in Canada between 2011 and 2014. Theoretically, my work draws on postcolonial, queer and feminist approaches to asylum, displacement, migrations, identities, belonging, and everyday life.
Current teaching:
- At undergraduate level: International migration and development, qualitative methodology, refugee studies
- At graduate level: Queer and gendered migrations and mobilities, feminist theories
Publications
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Caring Encounters in Ethnographic Research : Unlearning Distance and Learning Sharing
Eda Hatice Farsakoglu, Pouran Djampour
(2021) The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research : Addressing Moments of Discomfort , p.128-141
Book chapterIntroduction
Pankhuri Agarwal, Pouran Djampour, Eda Hatice Farsakoglu, Marta Kolankiewicz, Tove Lundberg, et al.
(2021) The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research : Addressing Moments of Discomfort
Book chapterEverydayness of precarity : Negotiations of Survival among queer refugees from Iran in Turkey
Eda Hatice Farsakoglu
(2017)
Conference - other
Background
Eda holds a MA degree in Global Studies from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and a BS in Sociology (High-Honors) from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She also acts as one of the Executive Members of the Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues (ESPMI) Network.