![Irem Seyma (Seyma) Ozdemir](https://soc.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/styles/people_node/public/people/photo/PLACEHOLDER_23_2.jpg?itok=4QZOYt-c)
Graduate Student
Specialization:
Feminist theories, international migration, political economy, and citizenship studies.
Bio:
Seyma Ozdemir is a doctoral student in sociology. She received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University, Istanbul, and a master’s degree in Sociology from Binghamton University (SUNY). Her research explores how contested citizenship politics and demographic categorizations function as apparatuses of control, surveillance, and coercion for marginalized populations from a global and historical perspective.