Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Haliloglu Kahraman, Z. E. and Irgil, E. (2026) The Role of Collective Hypervisibility in Everyday Lives of Refugees: The Syrian Refugee Hubs in Metropolitan Areas of Turkey. Journal of Refugee Studies. 

2. Irgil, E. and Norman, K. P. (2024) Assessing the Domestic Political Impacts of Turkey’s Refugee Commodification. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(16): 3855-3871. 

3. Irgil, E. (2024) Interethnic Encounters in Urban Public Spaces: Spatial Strategies of Host Community Members Following a Refugee Influx. International Migration Review 58(1): 386-409.

            •   Honorable Mention for the Best Article Award – APSA 2023 Migration & Citizenship Section

4. Jung, A., Irgil, E., Schierenbeck, I., and Spehar, A. (2023) International Donors and Refugee Reception in Centralised States: Navigating Domestic Politics in Turkey and Jordan. Third World Quarterly 44(5): 1021–1038.

5. Irgil, E. (2022) When the Government Comes to the Neighbourhood: Everyday Regulations and Syrian Refugees’ Encounters with Local State Authorities. Journal of Refugee Studies 35(2): 893–909.

6. Irgil, E., Kreft, A., Lee, M., Willis, C. N. and Zvobgo, K. (2021) Field Research: A Graduate Student’s Guide. International Studies Review 23(4): 1495–1517.

7. Irgil, E. (2021) Broadening the Positionality in Migration Studies: Assigned Insider Category. Migration Studies 9(3): 1215–1229. [Also published in Turkish]

8. Islar, M. and Irgil, E. (2018) Grassroots Practices of Citizenship and Politicization in the Urban: the Case of Right to the City Initiatives in Barcelona. Citizenship Studies 22(5): 491–506.

9. Irgil, E. (2016) Multi–level Governance as an Alternative: the Municipality of Barcelona and the Ciutat Refugi Plan. Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics, and Innovation 3.

Edited Volumes

1. Irgil, E. Irgil, E. (2024) The Intersection of Refugee Rentierism and Domestic Politics: Anti-Refugee Far-Right in Turkey. In POMEPS Studies 50: The Politics of Migration and Refugee Rentierism in the Middle East, (eds.) M. Lynch and G. Tsourapas, pp. 89–96.

2. Irgil, E. (2021) Studying Forced Migration in the Global South: The Role of Everyday Politics. In American Political Science Association (APSA) Comparative Politics Newsletter (Fall Issue), (eds.) E. Finkel, A. Lawrence, and A. Mertha, pp. 33–40.

Book Chapters

1. Irgil, E. (2024) Otherness in Forced Migration and Understanding Host Community Members’ Perceptions of Different Refugee Groups. In Representations of refugees, migrants and displaced people as the ‘Other’, (eds.) R. Novais and C. Arcila-Calderón, pp. 247–262. Palgrave Macmillan Cham.

2. Zvobgo, K., Willis, C. N., Lee, M., Kreft, A., and Irgil, E. (2022) Fieldwork. In Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond, (eds.) K. Lorentz II, D. J. Mallinson, J. M. Hellwege, D. Phoenix, and J. C. Strachan, pp. 129–134. American Political Science Association (APSA) Guidebook.