Seçil Paçaçı Elitok

Seçil Paçaçı Elitok is an economist. From 2009 to 2011 she worked for the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) as a Marie Curie Fellow before joining the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) as a Mercator-IPC Fellow in 2012. During this time she taught a module on the “Politics of Migration” at Sabanci University and worked as a consultant to the World Bank on a number of international mobility research projects. Before her appointment as visiting adjunct professor at CERES (Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies) at Michigan State University, she worked as post-doctoral research fellow at MiReKoç (Migration Research Center at Koç University) on the LEFAMSOL (Learning for African Migrants Solidarity) project.

She is currently teaching at Oakland University and working as a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Citizenship. Her main research interests are international migration with a specific focus on migration to and from Turkey, as well as high-skilled migration, return migration, and remittances. Seçil Paçaçı Elitok’s research project for her Mercator-IPC Fellowship is titled “Role of Migration in EU/German-Turkish Relations.” The project took into consideration Turkey’s various problems in its alignment with EU acquis concerning migration and the possible migration flows from Turkey to the EU (particularly to Germany). Seçil Paçaçı Elitok holds a PhD degree from the Economics Department of the University of Utah.