  {"id":31043,"date":"2021-09-01T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=31043"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:36:02","slug":"alum-ugur-yildiz","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/alum-ugur-yildiz\/","title":{"rendered":"U\u011fur Y\u0131ld\u0131z"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31045\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/ugur.yildiz_alumbio_2021.jpg\" alt=\"photo of U\u011fur Y\u0131ld\u0131z\" width=\"1500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/ugur.yildiz_alumbio_2021.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/ugur.yildiz_alumbio_2021-160x53.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/ugur.yildiz_alumbio_2021-240x80.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/ugur.yildiz_alumbio_2021-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/ugur.yildiz_alumbio_2021-400x133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/ugur.yildiz_alumbio_2021-360x120.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"assistant-professor-department-of-international-relations-aksaray-university\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Aksaray University<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PhD in Political Science, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U\u011fur Y\u0131ld\u0131z is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Aksaray University. His teaching and research lie at the intersection of migration, citizenship, and political theory. He received his BA in Political Science from Bilkent University, Ankara and his MA in International Relations from Ko\u00e7 University, Istanbul. Y\u0131ld\u0131z completed his PhD in Political Science at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University in Ottawa, Canada, focusing on transnational migration. His research focuses on forced migration and asylum trajectories, and his book titled <em>Tracing Asylum Journeys<\/em> was published by Routledge in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Enjoying what I am doing now!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"U\u011fur","cu_people_last_name":"Y\u0131ld\u0131z","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[54,99],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-31043","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-phd"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31056,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/31043\/revisions\/31056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=31043"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=31043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}