Gülşah is currently a PhD student in English Studies at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her research focuses on the processes through which language teaching functions as an apparatus of migration governance and refugee students' lives are governed in everyday interactions within schools.
Gülşah Türk Yiğitalp

Contact
Hosting institute
- Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS)
Current affiliation
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Memberships
Key expertise
- forced migration
- language policy
- education and migration
- integration
- borders
Regional expertise
- Türkei
Profile according to FFVT taxonomy
Scientific topics
- Borders
- Economy Of Forced Migration
- Education
- Identity
- Infrastructure Of Flight / Forced Migration
- Integration And Social Participation
- National Refugee And Asylum Policies
Disciplines
- Anthropology
- Education / Pedagogy
- Sociology
Professional Career
Relevant publications
- The nexus between language teaching and migration governance: An ethnographic exploration of PIKTES project as everyday bordering. In I. Aladağ Görentaş, M. Mallet-Garcia, J. Mandin, E. Mescoli, & B. Özdemir Dal (Eds.), Everyday bordering in migrants’ access to social services: scope, practices and resistance.2025.Palgrave Macmillan.
- Book review: Anna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro (eds), Exploring (im)mobilities: Language practices, discourses and imaginaries. Discourse & Society, 34(6), 791-793.2023.DOI.