Gizem Karaköse
BIOGRAPHY
Gizem Karaköse is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Her research focuses on migration, multilingualism, and social positioning in transnational contexts, with emphasis on how language practices shape identity, belonging, and inequality across migrant and diaspora communities.
She is currently completing a doctoral project funded by the NCN Preludium Bis 3 grant (2022–2026), which examines language and social adaptation among the Polish diaspora in Türkiye. Her work combines ethnographic fieldwork with qualitative and quantitative methods and is based on multi-sited research across migrant settings in Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.
She previously worked as a lecturer in Sociology of Language at Nicolaus Copernicus University. She is also a research affiliate of the Mobility Research Centre (MoRe) at International Business School in Manchester, where her work focuses on human mobility, transnational migration, and interdisciplinary approaches to migration studies. She has also been affiliated with the CaLC Research Group and IMSERT Lab, contributing to collaborative research on migration and multilingualism.
Her research experience includes fieldwork with Syrian refugees in Türkiye, Ukrainian refugees in Poland, Turkish migrants in Poland, and migrant and refugee groups in the United Kingdom, alongside research within Polish diaspora communities in Türkiye. This comparative foundation informs her work on migration regimes, integration processes, and linguistic diversity in contexts of mobility.
She has held visiting research positions at the UNESCO RIELA, University of Glasgow, MiReKoc, Koç University, Istanbul, and the University of Georgia, USA. Her work in these settings focuses on language, migration, and interdisciplinary approaches to refugee inclusion, with attention to participatory and public-facing research outputs.
She is currently preparing a forthcoming book on art and migration, which explores visual, literary, and participatory approaches to mobility, memory, and social inclusion in transnational contexts.