McGill University

Merve Erdilmen is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science with Gender Studies Specialization at McGill University and a research fellow for Dignity Kwanza in Tanzania as part of the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN). Her research has been supported by Mitacs Globalink, Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC), Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, and Women in International Security (WIIS). Her areas of research are gender and migration policies, international practices of refugee regime, and humanitarian development initiatives in the Middle East. Merve holds an MA in Political Science at McGill University and studied philosophy and sociology at the Middle East Technical University and Sciences Po Paris for her undergraduate studies.