PhD Candidate, Political Science, McGill University
Research Interests: Merve Erdilmen is a Ph.D student in Political Science with Gender Studies Specialization at McGill University. Merve holds an MA in Political Science from McGill University and studied philosophy and sociology at the Middle East Technical University and Sciences Po Paris for her undergraduate studies. She holds Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship for 2016-2017. Her research interests include humanitarianism, refugee governance, gender-based asylum, urban refugees, and the role of state-non-state actors in refugee management in the Middle East. Her current project aims to understand the ways in which varying norms and readings of humanitarianism affect humanitarian operations and the state-non-state relations in the management of urban refugees in Turkey.