Doç. Dr. MAISSAM NIMER

Nimer is Associate Professor at Akdeniz University, Sociology Department, working at the intersection between migration governance and experiences, social and gender inequalities and development. Previously, she carried out work at Paris Nanterre University examining the way in which intellectual production is transformed by exile, and prior to that Koç University, and as a Mercator IPC fellow at Sabanci University, dealing with the experiences of Syrian refugee youth in Turkey and language learning. She obtained her PhD in July 2016 at Paris Saclay University looking at inequalities of access to higher education and mechanisms of action of an internationally funded development program in Lebanon.

Her work has been published in international and regional academic journals including Gender and Education, Critical Sociology, Governance, Migration Studies, Third World Quarterly, Sociological Research Online, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Multilingua, Comparative Education Review as well as New Perspectives on Turkey, Idafat, Civil Society Review and New Middle East Studies Journal.

She was awarded the BAGEP 2023 award (Science Academy’s Young Scientist Awards Program) and 2022 TÜBİTAK Incentive Award (2022 TÜBİTAK Teşvik Ödülü) in recognition of her research contribution.

She obtained her MSc from the London School of Economics and BS from the American University of Beirut.