From self-identified ‘Turkish migrants’ to ‘Kurdish Diaspora’ in London
Loss and its relationship to translation and incommensurability have been central features of my work. My interdisciplinary PhD (Social and
Ipek Demir
Ipek Demir (PhD, University of Sussex) is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Leicester. She previously taught social sciences at the Universities of Sussex and Cambridge, and the Open University and was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She recently held an AHRC Fellowship, examining how ethno-political identity is represented and translated by Kurds (of Turkey) in London. Demir has given many invited talks and has numerous peer-reviewed international publications. She is the founder and co-coordinator of BSA’s Diaspora, Migration and Transnationalism (DMT) Study Group and the former Vice-Chair of ESA’s Sociology of Migration Research Network.