Conferences



(with Vivien Lowndes) Shifting Responsibilities ‘Down’, ‘Up’ and ‘Out’: A Multi-Level Governance Approach to Understanding Turkey’s Refugee Policy, Paper presented at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRIS), University of Birmingham, 3 November 2020.



A Critical Analysis of AKP’s Discourse on Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Religion, History and National Identity, Paper presented at the 40th Congress of the German Sociological Association, 22 September 2020.



(with Vivien Lowndes) Local Responses to Syrian Refugees in Turkey: A Multi-Level Governance Approach, paper presented at “Unpacking the Challenges & Possibilities for Migration Governance”,17-19 October 2019, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.



(with Vivien Lowndes) Local Responses to Syrian Refugees in Turkey: A Multi-Level Governance Approach, paper presented at “Unpacking the Challenges & Possibilities for Migration Governance”,17-19 October 2019, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.



(with Vivien Lowndes) “Local Responses to Syrian Refugees in Turkey: A Multi-Level Governance Approach”, Seminar at the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham, 3 November 2020.



Vivien Lowndes and Rabia Karakaya Polat (2019) “How are local responses to Syrian Refugees in Turkey shaped by multiple and competing interpretations within a multi-level context?”, Paper for the 69th Annual Conference of Political Studies Association, Nottingham, United Kingdom.



Vivien Lowndes and Rabia Karakaya Polat (2018) Exploring the Local Dynamics of Refugee Policy Frames in Turkey, Paper presented at the workshop “Mixed Migration Flows and the Changing Dynamics of Migration Research”, Şehir University, Istanbul.



Vivien Lowndes and Rabia Karakaya Polat (2018) Investigating the spatial dynamics of refugee policy frames in Turkey, Paper presented at the workshop “The framing of the ‘migration crisis’ cross-nationally: From problem definition to institutionalization (or not)”, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.