Associate Professor
University of Groningen
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Basak Bilecen is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Since 2023, she is the chair of Dutch Association for Migration Research, which is a national organization in the Netherlands. In 2022, Basak was awarded the Karl Arnold Prize by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Germany for her life time achievements in migration scholarship. In 2017-2018 academic year, she has worked at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University as a JFK Memorial Fellow funded by German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD). Her research focuses on international migration, aging, transnational studies, social inequalities, transnational social protection, and personal network analysis. She has co-edited special issues in Population, Space and Place (2015), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2017), Social Networks (2018), Comparative Migration Studies
(2019), and the Gerontologist (2022).
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Best Practices for Studying Older Migrants in Context
Friday, November 10, 2023
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET
1 - "God Alone Exists in Solitude": Interviewing Old Migrants About Loneliness
Friday, November 10, 2023
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET