Tuba Bircan
Biographic Data
| ID | 373011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tuba Bircan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tuba |
| FAMILY NAME | Bircan |
| SIGNATURE | BIRCAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1956-0545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Working to Do and Working to Be: Adolescent Girls’ Labor and Identity in a Rural Migrant Community in Bolivia
For rural adolescent girls in the Bolivian Andes, adolescence is not a “protected” transitional life stage but a gendered laboring condition. This article explores the lived experiences of adolescent girls in a rural Quechua community in Cochabamba, drawing on the initial phase of a longitudinal Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) project (2023–2024). By integrating Silvia Federici’s theory of social reproduction with Axel Honneth’s rec…
Migrant by Proxy: How Big Data Defines and Redefines Human Mobility
In big data systems, migrants rarely appear as self-identified social actors. Instead, they are rendered through proxies such as social media traces, mobile phone records, or online behavioural signals. We introduce the concept of the migrant by proxy to examine how such indicators do more than approximate migration: they shape what migration becomes measurable, visible, and governable. Across discursive, behavioural, infrastructural, and demogra…
Unmasking inequalities of the code: Disentangling the nexus of AI and inequality
A Bourdieusian theory on communicating an opinion about AI governance
New frontiers in migration statistics: A narrative review on big data’s role
Understanding and managing international migration relies heavily on the availability of timely, accurate, and detailed data. Traditional migration statistics, though foundational, often suffer from delays, limited granularity, and inconsistencies across countries. In response, researchers and institutions have increasingly turned to big data sources, including social media activity, mobile phone records, satellite imagery, and web-scraped conten…
Beyond Economic and Educated: Reconceptualising Skill in EU Migration Policy Through Contextual Adaptability
Academic research and policy discussions commonly define ‘skill’ in migration through the lens of formal qualifications, focusing almost exclusively on economic migrants with tertiary educations. Our systematic review of scholarly literature on skilled migration to, from, and within the EU+ confirms this empirical pattern, revealing a persistent narrowing of the concept. This narrow framing has been widely critiqued within migration studies, part…
Combining Twitter and mobile phone data to observe border-rush: The Turkish-European border opening
Challenges with International Migration Data: An Analysis of the Experience of National Statistical Institutions
To gain a better understanding of migration patterns and trends, policymakers, researchers, and analysts require high-quality data on migration, including the number of migrants, their characteristics, and the reasons for migration. This information is crucial for developing effective migration policies and programs, and for monitoring and evaluating their impact. However, there have been significant gaps in international migration data for sever…
Machine Discriminating: Automated Speech Recognition Biases in Refugee Interviews
This study scrutinizes Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) software, a powerful instrument to expedite the translation process, and their unintended bias against Arabic speakers, particularly refugees. We propose that pre-existing biases in ASR training data reflect societal prejudices, leading to orientalist and Islamophobic misrepresentations. We used four ASR tools to transcribe interviews with Arabic-speaking refugee women, employing ideologic…
Irregular migration is skilled migration: Reimagining skill in EU’s migration policies
Irregular migration, the movement of people outside legal regulations, is largely viewed either as a security threat or a moral, humanitarian impetus to help the vulnerable. The lack of data on irregular migration obscures the contribution of migrants without legal residence in the farms and factories of Europe. It also makes invisible their skill levels and labour market potential. A growing body of literature that centres coloniality and racism…
Big data for official migration statistics: Evidence from 29 national statistical institutions
International migration statistics suffer from extensive gaps and shortcomings. Recently, national statistical institutions (NSIs) have started using big data to complement traditional statistics, including on migration. Although these are promising developments, we still lack answers on the extent to which NSIs are currently using big data for migration and to what extent it complements the gaps in traditional data. We gathered data by interview…
The Polarization of Traumas and Selective Remembering: Competing Political Memories of Military Coups in Contemporary Turkey
Based on a national survey funded by the TÜBİTAK SOBAG Program, conducted with 1,957 respondents in 12 cities during 2013‐2014, this article examines the political memory of the 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 coups by describing the memories and accompanying emotions of Turkish adults. It then explains how differences in remembering and not remembering the coups are related to demographic, socio‐cultural, political identity, and fear variables. The d…
Present but not counted: Highly skilled migrant women in Belgium
Family reunification is one of the main channels for migration to the EU, yet little is known about the skills and labour market trajectories of family migrants. Family migration continues to be seen within a gendered and binary paradigm of the male economic migrant and female dependent. Related policies disadvantage migrant women and limit their participation on the labour market in material and structural ways. While EU’s Single Permit Directiv…
A critique of gender‐blind migration theories and data sources
Despite this being the era of migration, no systematic theory of international migration has emerged, nor is there an academic or political agreement on ways in which migration is a ‘gendered’ process. Both theoretically and as inputs in the policy‐making process, gender‐blind approaches have actually rendered the gender dimension of migration more or less invisible. Through an in‐depth examination of the place of gender in the key theories of mi…
Big data for whose sake? Governing migration through artificial intelligence
Although human activity constantly generates massive amounts of data, these data can only be analysed by mainly the private sector and governmental institutes due to data accessibility restrictions. However, neither migrants (as the producers of this data) nor migration scholars (as scientific experts on the topic) are in a position to monitor or control how governments and corporations use such data. Big Data analytics and Artificial Intelligenc…
A multilevel approach to Ecec policies and intensity of formal childcare participation of young children in Europe
Opinion-policy correspondence in public provision and financing of childcare in Europe
Perceived accessibility of childcare in Europe: A cross-country multilevel study
Perceptions of users regarding the accessibility of childcare services have been under-researched. The present study addresses this gap by looking into the effect of systemic level characteristics of the ECEC system on the perceived accessibility of childcare at the individual level. Perceived accessibility is composed of perceived affordability, availability, quality and physical accessibility of these services. The socio-ecological model at the…
Educational Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
In political, social and economical terms, Turkey is the most affected country of the Syrian crisis. More importantly, Turkey as a host country of Syrian refugees has been living a dramatic demographic change. The most marginalized group living in Turkey is children. Refugee education has hence become of top priority. The global report in refugee education is below the critical level, but Turkish report is even worse in the contexts of not only a…
Unemployment, Inequality, Poverty and Crime: Spatial Distribution Patterns of Criminal Acts in Belgium, 2001-06
Previous research has indicated that various deprivation indicators have a positive impact on crime rates at the community level. In this article, we investigate the impact of deprivation indicators on crime in Belgian municipalities (n = 589) for the period 2001–06. A spatial regression analysis demonstrates that unemployment figures have a strong and significant impact on crime rates, and this effect is stronger than the effect of income levels…
Explaining the Green vote: Belgian local elections, 1994-2006
In the debate about the electoral appeal of Green parties, some authors argue that Green voting is a phenomenon typical of the ‘new middle class’ (young, highly educated and urban), while others assume that Green parties are able to reach out to new constituencies. Aggregate level data on the electoral performance of Belgian Green parties in the period 1994–2006, analysed using a Tobit II model, indicate that entry into the elections is strongly …
Unemployment, Inequality, Poverty and Crime: Spatial Distribution Patterns of Criminal Acts in Belgium, 2001-06
Previous research has indicated that various deprivation indicators have a positive impact on crime rates at the community level. In this article, we investigate the impact of deprivation indicators on crime in Belgian municipalities (n = 589) for the period 2001–06. A spatial regression analysis demonstrates that unemployment figures have a strong and significant impact on crime rates, and this effect is stronger than the effect of income levels…
Explaining the Green vote: Belgian local elections, 1994-2006
In the debate about the electoral appeal of Green parties, some authors argue that Green voting is a phenomenon typical of the ‘new middle class’ (young, highly educated and urban), while others assume that Green parties are able to reach out to new constituencies. Aggregate level data on the electoral performance of Belgian Green parties in the period 1994–2006, analysed using a Tobit II model, indicate that entry into the elections is strongly …
A critique of gender‐blind migration theories and data sources
Despite this being the era of migration, no systematic theory of international migration has emerged, nor is there an academic or political agreement on ways in which migration is a ‘gendered’ process. Both theoretically and as inputs in the policy‐making process, gender‐blind approaches have actually rendered the gender dimension of migration more or less invisible. Through an in‐depth examination of the place of gender in the key theories of mi…
Present but not counted: Highly skilled migrant women in Belgium
Family reunification is one of the main channels for migration to the EU, yet little is known about the skills and labour market trajectories of family migrants. Family migration continues to be seen within a gendered and binary paradigm of the male economic migrant and female dependent. Related policies disadvantage migrant women and limit their participation on the labour market in material and structural ways. While EU’s Single Permit Directiv…
The Polarization of Traumas and Selective Remembering: Competing Political Memories of Military Coups in Contemporary Turkey
Based on a national survey funded by the TÜBİTAK SOBAG Program, conducted with 1,957 respondents in 12 cities during 2013‐2014, this article examines the political memory of the 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 coups by describing the memories and accompanying emotions of Turkish adults. It then explains how differences in remembering and not remembering the coups are related to demographic, socio‐cultural, political identity, and fear variables. The d…
A multilevel approach to Ecec policies and intensity of formal childcare participation of young children in Europe
Explaining the Green vote: Belgian local elections, 1994-2006
In the debate about the electoral appeal of Green parties, some authors argue that Green voting is a phenomenon typical of the ‘new middle class’ (young, highly educated and urban), while others assume that Green parties are able to reach out to new constituencies. Aggregate level data on the electoral performance of Belgian Green parties in the period 1994–2006, analysed using a Tobit II model, indicate that entry into the elections is strongly …
Unemployment, Inequality, Poverty and Crime: Spatial Distribution Patterns of Criminal Acts in Belgium, 2001-06
Previous research has indicated that various deprivation indicators have a positive impact on crime rates at the community level. In this article, we investigate the impact of deprivation indicators on crime in Belgian municipalities (n = 589) for the period 2001–06. A spatial regression analysis demonstrates that unemployment figures have a strong and significant impact on crime rates, and this effect is stronger than the effect of income levels…
Educational Assessment of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
In political, social and economical terms, Turkey is the most affected country of the Syrian crisis. More importantly, Turkey as a host country of Syrian refugees has been living a dramatic demographic change. The most marginalized group living in Turkey is children. Refugee education has hence become of top priority. The global report in refugee education is below the critical level, but Turkish report is even worse in the contexts of not only a…
Perceived accessibility of childcare in Europe: A cross-country multilevel study
Perceptions of users regarding the accessibility of childcare services have been under-researched. The present study addresses this gap by looking into the effect of systemic level characteristics of the ECEC system on the perceived accessibility of childcare at the individual level. Perceived accessibility is composed of perceived affordability, availability, quality and physical accessibility of these services. The socio-ecological model at the…
Opinion-policy correspondence in public provision and financing of childcare in Europe
Big data for whose sake? Governing migration through artificial intelligence
Although human activity constantly generates massive amounts of data, these data can only be analysed by mainly the private sector and governmental institutes due to data accessibility restrictions. However, neither migrants (as the producers of this data) nor migration scholars (as scientific experts on the topic) are in a position to monitor or control how governments and corporations use such data. Big Data analytics and Artificial Intelligenc…
A multilevel approach to Ecec policies and intensity of formal childcare participation of young children in Europe
A critique of gender‐blind migration theories and data sources
Despite this being the era of migration, no systematic theory of international migration has emerged, nor is there an academic or political agreement on ways in which migration is a ‘gendered’ process. Both theoretically and as inputs in the policy‐making process, gender‐blind approaches have actually rendered the gender dimension of migration more or less invisible. Through an in‐depth examination of the place of gender in the key theories of mi…
Irregular migration is skilled migration: Reimagining skill in EU’s migration policies
Irregular migration, the movement of people outside legal regulations, is largely viewed either as a security threat or a moral, humanitarian impetus to help the vulnerable. The lack of data on irregular migration obscures the contribution of migrants without legal residence in the farms and factories of Europe. It also makes invisible their skill levels and labour market potential. A growing body of literature that centres coloniality and racism…
Big data for official migration statistics: Evidence from 29 national statistical institutions
International migration statistics suffer from extensive gaps and shortcomings. Recently, national statistical institutions (NSIs) have started using big data to complement traditional statistics, including on migration. Although these are promising developments, we still lack answers on the extent to which NSIs are currently using big data for migration and to what extent it complements the gaps in traditional data. We gathered data by interview…
The Polarization of Traumas and Selective Remembering: Competing Political Memories of Military Coups in Contemporary Turkey
Based on a national survey funded by the TÜBİTAK SOBAG Program, conducted with 1,957 respondents in 12 cities during 2013‐2014, this article examines the political memory of the 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 coups by describing the memories and accompanying emotions of Turkish adults. It then explains how differences in remembering and not remembering the coups are related to demographic, socio‐cultural, political identity, and fear variables. The d…
Present but not counted: Highly skilled migrant women in Belgium
Family reunification is one of the main channels for migration to the EU, yet little is known about the skills and labour market trajectories of family migrants. Family migration continues to be seen within a gendered and binary paradigm of the male economic migrant and female dependent. Related policies disadvantage migrant women and limit their participation on the labour market in material and structural ways. While EU’s Single Permit Directiv…
Machine Discriminating: Automated Speech Recognition Biases in Refugee Interviews
This study scrutinizes Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) software, a powerful instrument to expedite the translation process, and their unintended bias against Arabic speakers, particularly refugees. We propose that pre-existing biases in ASR training data reflect societal prejudices, leading to orientalist and Islamophobic misrepresentations. We used four ASR tools to transcribe interviews with Arabic-speaking refugee women, employing ideologic…
Unmasking inequalities of the code: Disentangling the nexus of AI and inequality
A Bourdieusian theory on communicating an opinion about AI governance
New frontiers in migration statistics: A narrative review on big data’s role
Understanding and managing international migration relies heavily on the availability of timely, accurate, and detailed data. Traditional migration statistics, though foundational, often suffer from delays, limited granularity, and inconsistencies across countries. In response, researchers and institutions have increasingly turned to big data sources, including social media activity, mobile phone records, satellite imagery, and web-scraped conten…
Beyond Economic and Educated: Reconceptualising Skill in EU Migration Policy Through Contextual Adaptability
Academic research and policy discussions commonly define ‘skill’ in migration through the lens of formal qualifications, focusing almost exclusively on economic migrants with tertiary educations. Our systematic review of scholarly literature on skilled migration to, from, and within the EU+ confirms this empirical pattern, revealing a persistent narrowing of the concept. This narrow framing has been widely critiqued within migration studies, part…
Combining Twitter and mobile phone data to observe border-rush: The Turkish-European border opening
Challenges with International Migration Data: An Analysis of the Experience of National Statistical Institutions
To gain a better understanding of migration patterns and trends, policymakers, researchers, and analysts require high-quality data on migration, including the number of migrants, their characteristics, and the reasons for migration. This information is crucial for developing effective migration policies and programs, and for monitoring and evaluating their impact. However, there have been significant gaps in international migration data for sever…
Working to Do and Working to Be: Adolescent Girls’ Labor and Identity in a Rural Migrant Community in Bolivia
For rural adolescent girls in the Bolivian Andes, adolescence is not a “protected” transitional life stage but a gendered laboring condition. This article explores the lived experiences of adolescent girls in a rural Quechua community in Cochabamba, drawing on the initial phase of a longitudinal Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) project (2023–2024). By integrating Silvia Federici’s theory of social reproduction with Axel Honneth’s rec…
Migrant by Proxy: How Big Data Defines and Redefines Human Mobility
In big data systems, migrants rarely appear as self-identified social actors. Instead, they are rendered through proxies such as social media traces, mobile phone records, or online behavioural signals. We introduce the concept of the migrant by proxy to examine how such indicators do more than approximate migration: they shape what migration becomes measurable, visible, and governable. Across discursive, behavioural, infrastructural, and demogra…
Political science (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Law (5 works)