Ahmet İçduygu earned his PhD in Demography from the Australian National University and is currently a full professor at Koç University, holding positions in both the Department of International Relations and the Department of Sociology. He is also the Director of the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc). Prof. İçduygu has held visiting professorships at prestigious institutions, including Stockholm University, the University of Warwick, Eyropean University Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania, among others. An elected member of the Science Academy in Turkey, he serves as editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal International Migration. His research and teaching focus on migration studies, citizenship theories and practices, international organizations, civil society, nationalism, and Meditterean Studies. Prof. İçduygu has conducted studies for notable international organizations, including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the European Union (EU). He has an extensive publication record, with numerous articles in leading journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Citizenship Studies, International Migration, Population, Space and Place, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. His authored and edited books include Migration and Transformation: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism (Springer, 2011), Countries of Migrants, Cities of Migrants – Italy, Spain, Turkey (ISI Press, 2013), and Critical Reflections in Migration Research: Views from the South and the East (Koç University Press, 2014). His forthcoming work, Cities and Forced Displacement, is set to be published by Liverpool University Press in 2026, co-edited with Ricard Zapata.
