Cenk Saraçoğlu | Global Migration Processes

Cenk Saraçoğlu

Cenk Saraçoğlu

Cenk Saraçoğlu is an associate professor in Communication at the University of Ankara, Turkey. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from the Bilkent University, Turkey, and a Master’s Degree and PhD in Sociology from Western University, Ontario. He is interested in migration, nationalism, urban transformation, and ethnic relations, with a focus on Turkey. He is the author of the book, Kurds of Modern Turkey: Migration, Neoliberalism and Exclusion (I.B Tauris: 2008), and has published many scientific articles on Turkish social and political life. He has been collaborating with Danièle Bélanger since 2016 on an ethnographic research project examining the relations between Syrian refugees and the Turkish host community in an urban setting. Some outputs of the research have been published as book chapters and articles in scientific journals, including Mediterranean Politics and Patterns of Prejudice.

Photographic contribution

Michel Huneault is a documentary photographer and visual artist. Before devoting himself entirely to photography starting in 2008, he worked for more than ten years in international development. He holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow, focusing on the role of collective memory in the aftermath of large-scale trauma. First in Berkeley and then in New York, he was a student and assistant to photographer Gilles Peress of the Magnum agency. Today, Michel Huneault is still interested in development, trauma, migration and other complex geographic realities, including the impacts of climate change. In 2016, he was awarded the Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship to continue his research on migration issues. In 2018, ROXHAM, his visual and sound project on the passage of asylum seekers from the United States to Canada was adapted into virtual reality by the National Film Board of Canada.