Beste İşleyen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include critical security studies, borders, migration and conflict. İşleyen is currently working on a project on Turkey’s border and migration practices. This project is funded by a VENI Grant (Project Number 451-15-33) by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). İşleyen’s most recent journal articles have appeared in European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, Mediterranean Politics and Security Dialogue.
Beste İşleyen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include critical security studies, borders, migration and conflict. İşleyen is currently working on a project on Turkey’s border and migration practices. This project is funded by a VENI Grant (Project Number 451-15-33) by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). İşleyen’s most recent journal articles have appeared in European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, Mediterranean Politics and Security Dialogue.
As an affiliated researcher of FOLLOW, İşleyen supervises the third PhD project by Tasniem Anwar on courts. İşleyen’s VENI research and the FOLLOW project address a number of interlinked issues, in particular terrorism financing cases and border management practices that target particular forms of human mobility (from the European Union to war-torn regions and vice versa). A central question which İşleyen is interested in is the emergence of new security practices in the context of European Union cooperation with neighbouring countries in the management of human mobility defined as “terrorist travel.”