Feriha Nazda Saygı (Güngördü)

Nazda obtained her Ph.D. degree in Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2021. Her Ph.D. thesis on Syrian refugees’ emplacement and location choices in Izmir, Turkey was awarded the “Best Ph.D. Thesis” by METU. Before joining VUB, she served as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity and held the position of FFVT Fellow (Forced Migration and Refugee Studies) at Osnabrück University, Germany. Her research focuses on the intersection of migration and urban studies covering the socio-spatial outcomes of forced migration (i.e., integration, emplacement, place-making), multi-scalar mobility trajectories, location choices and settlement patterns of migrants, ethnic residential segregation, housing, and urban informalities. For over ten years, she has been involved in international/national research projects (e.g., EU-funded FP7 DIVERCITIES) and she possesses extensive expertise in qualitative/quantitative research methods and spatial analysis. She has a clear track record of academic publications, including articles published in high-impact journals, book chapters, working papers, and conference proceedings.

Research keywords: 

migration, diversity, social inequality, ethnic segregation, refugee/migrant, forced migration, emplacement, place-making