»In times of widespread anti-immigration discourse across the world, this book offers a timely counterpoint by illuminating the diverse trajectories and experiences of highly skilled migrants. Academics, health workers, and teachers are often overlooked assets in host societies. The book’s focus on the mobilities of West Asian migrants in both Türkiye and Germany broadens our understanding of what makes migration policies humane and effective – or not.«

Ergün Özgür Liy is a Gerda Henkel Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient and a guest researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin. She holds a PhD in organisational behaviour and obtained academic degrees in global politics and international relations, banking, and public administration. She is a signatory to the Peace Petition of Academics for Peace and has spent the past decade researching immigrants and refugees. Her research focuses on critical scholarship, culture and values, highly qualified individuals, diasporas, forced displacement, immigrants and refugees, and theAdyghe, Abkhaz-Abaza, Ubykh and North Caucasian peoples. She focuses on the Black Sea, Caucasus, European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions.