WHO ARE WE ?

Founded in 2010, the Migration Research Foundation (GAV) primarily explores the cultural background, social, cultural, and political issues of the Turkish community living abroad. It aims to make researches about the participation/adaptation/assimilation policies of the countries where the Turkish society lives, to develop solutions, and to form public opinion and inform the decision-makers. We aim to produce solutions to eliminate these problems by closely monitoring the problems faced by the Turks in the diaspora from public services to social and cultural issues in our country. In addition, starting from the experience of our community abroad, to do work related to asylum and migration issues in Turkey and we aim to support their participation policies.

GAV aims to produce solutions to eliminate these problems by closely monitoring the problems faced by the Turks in the diaspora from public services to social and cultural issues in our country. In addition, starting from the experience of our community abroad, to do work related to asylum and migration issues in Turkey and we aim to support their participation policies. Our vision to become a center in the civil, academic, and public sphere with the knowledge and human resources it produces in the field of migration and diaspora. The Foundation conducts research, produces information, and conducts educational activities in social, political, legal, economic, cultural, and other fields related to migration and diaspora. It presents the information it produces to the national and international public as well as solutions and decision mechanisms.

In the first part of 2019, research centers were opened within the foundation. Currently, there are two research centers actively continuing their studies namely Turkey Migration Research Centre and Turkey Diaspora Research Centre. In these centers, researchers and research assistants at master’s and doctoral levels continue their study in various areas of migration and diaspora. The Migration Research Foundation builds its core activities on education. In this context, In the second half of 2019, the Migration and Diaspora Academy was designed and put into operation. Gradual training programs for migration and diaspora are organized within the academy. The Basic Education Program for undergraduate students, the Specialization Program for graduate students, and the annual Diaspora Summer School programs are the main education programs of the Migration and Diaspora Academy.