Migration permeates multiple aspects of social and political lives, in interpersonal as much as in international relations. Despite its being a fact as old as humanity, migration is today both a challenge and an opportunity whose understanding passes through in-depth analyses as well as intellectual exchanges and cooperation.

Each semester, the Global Migration Centre invites guest experts from a broad variety of fields and disciplines (such as History, Sociology, Anthropology, Economy, International Law, Political Science, and International Relations), presenting the Graduate Institute community with ongoing research and analyses. 

Dr. Sebnem Koser Akcapar is currently Visiting Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She works as Full Professor in Sociology at the Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU) where she also acts as the Director for the Global Migration Research Center (ASBU-GAUM). Before joining the ranks of ASBU, she worked as faculty member in Sociology Department and senior research fellow and executive board member at Migration Research Center (MiReKoc) at Koc University, Istanbul. She is the founding Director of Center for Asian Studies (KUASIA) and Associate Member at Asia Centre at the University of Sussex. After completing her PhD in Belgium, she moved to the United States as a post-doc fellow at the Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University. She taught graduate courses on Gender and Migration, Muslim Immigrants in Western Europe and North America, Politics of Migration and Integration Problems at Georgetown University's prestigious School of International Service and the Center of German and European Studies. She was later appointed as the Director of Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies of Georgetown University. She also worked as visiting faculty member at JNU and South Asian University in New Delhi, India and taught on diaspora and transnationalism as well as on social stratification in Asia between 2013-15. She published many articles in peer-reviewed academic journals on different aspects of migration. Her research areas include politization of migration, role of religion in migratory movements, forced migration, labor migration, highly skilled migration, social networks in migration, diaspora formation and political mobilization.