INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION IN THE TWENTY – FIRST CENTURY – II

The Yeditepe University Global Education and Cultural Studies Application and Research Center (KEKAM) hosted the international conference "International Migration in the 21st Century" on 10-11 October 2017. The conference marked the center's second year hosting the event. Yeditepe University International Relations Club collaborated with KEKAM to put on the conference this year. Our Vice-Chancellor of our university, Professor Doctor Tülay Baran, and Faculty Member of Law Professor Doctor Nuray Ekşi were one of the guests at the conference. The conference started with the opening speech of Associate Professor Gökçe Bayındır Goularas. A total of 11 foreign academics from 8 countries and a total of 76 speakers from 32 distinguished universities of Turkey and different public institutions of the country attended the conference. The conference, which is one of the most comprehensive conferences on migration in our country in terms of quantity and quality, hosted a total of 14 sessions for two days in which the different causes and consequences of migration were discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective.