Esra Kaytaz

Dr Esra Kaytaz joined the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations as a Research Associate in the research group Migration, Development and Belonging in May 2016. Esra holds a BA (Hons.) in Archaeology and Anthropology (2003), MPhil in Development Studies (2006) and DPhil in Anthropology (2015) from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis ‘The Resigned, the Restless and the Resilient: Risk perceptions among Afghan migrants in Turkey’ used socio-cultural theories of risk to examine the within-group variation in decision-making processes of Afghans in Turkey. Esra was a research officer at the Global Migration Governance Program at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford. In addition, Esra has worked as a researcher on projects migration for UNHCR, World Bank, University of Oxford and Open Society Foundation. Her research in Turkey, Southern and East Africa, Switzerland and Canada covers topics such as immigration detention and alternatives to it, migrant decision-making, irregular migration, journeys and migration governance.