Publications

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Refereed Articles

Erdilmen, M. (2025). “Against the Charge of Charity: Refugee-Led Organizations, Localization and Decolonizing Humanitarianism,” Third World Quarterly, 46(13): 1543-1564.

Erdilmen, M., Milner, J., and Bradley, M. (2025). “Through the Localization Looking Glass: Seeing Subaltern Power in the Refugee Regime,” Global Studies Quarterly, 5(1).

Erdilmen, M. (2024). “Empowering Syrian Refugee Women: The Impact of Gulf Donors’ Humanitarian Funding,” Forced Migration Review, Issue 74.

Bradley, M., and Erdilmen, M. (2023). “Is the International Organization for Migration Legitimate? Rights-Talk, Protection Commitments and the Legitimation of IOM,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(9): 2332-2354.

Bradley, M., Madokoro, L., Erdilmen, M., and Chanco, C. (2022). “Whither the Refugees? The Evolution of the Idea and Pursuit of Durable Solutions to Displacement, 1921-1960,” Refugee Survey Quarterly, 41(2): 159-195. 

Kayran, E. and Erdilmen, M. (2020). “When Do States Give Voting Rights to Non-Citizens? The Role of Population, Policy, and Politics on the Timing of Enfranchisement Reforms in Liberal Democracies,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(13): 2855-2876.

Refereed Book Chapters

Erdilmen, M. (Forthcoming, 2026). “Humanitarianism and Migration.” In The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action (2nd Edition). Routledge. 

Chabot, R. and Erdilmen, M. (2023). “Voicing and Silencing in Tandem: Feminist Activism on Abortion in Argentina and Turkey”. In The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between: Exploring Gender, Race and Insecurity from the Margins. Edited by Aliya Khalid, Georgina Holmes, and Jane Parpart. Routledge. 

Erdilmen, M. (2020). “Knowledge Asymmetry, Social Trust: Implications for Oversight’”. In Anti-Corruption Evidence: The Role of Parliaments in Curbing Corruption. Edited by Rick Stapenhurst, Rasheed Draman, Brooke Larson, and Anthony Staddon. Springer. 

Working Papers

Erdilmen, M. “Rethinking Feminist Alliances: Avoiding Feminism, but Advancing Gender Equality within Refugee Communities?” International Feminist Journal of Politics (revise and resubmit).

Erdilmen, M. “Transnational Queer Refugee Kinship across Germany, Canada, and Turkey: A Comparative Perspective.” (working paper) 

Erdilmen, M., and Kochanski, A. “Diverse Locals, Diverse Communities of Practice, Diverse Configurations of Right to Protection.” (working paper – invited for a special issue in Global Studies Quarterly).

Scott, E. K. M., and Erdilmen, M. “When Disciplines Collide: Spatial Analysis in Political Science.” (working paper).

Policy Reports

Erdilmen, M. (2023). “Mainstreaming Gender to Remedy Inequality: Refugee-Led Organizations in Turkey Show the Way,” Policy brief no. 03.23.23. Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas.

Erdilmen, M. (2021). “Frameworks and Good Practices of Intercultural Mediation for Migrant Integration in Europe,” International Organization for Migration (IOM): Brussels. 

Erdilmen, M. and Sosthenes, W. (2020). “Opportunities and Challenges for Localization of Humanitarian Action in Tanzania,” The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) Working Papers 8. 

Erdilmen, M. and Honohan, I. (2020). “Trends in Birthright Citizenship in EU 28: 2013-2020,” Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) Policy Briefs, 2020/2. European University Institute: Florence. 

Erdilmen, M. (2019). “Durable Solutions and Humanitarian Development Nexus,” The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) Working Papers 2.

Book Reviews

Erdilmen, M. (2021). “Review of Justice for People on the Move: Migration in Challenging Times by Gillian Brock,” Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(3), 3545-3548. 

Erdilmen, M. (2019). “Review of A Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation by Michael Zürn,” International Affairs, 95(6), 1444-1445.

Erdilmen, M. (2018). “Review of Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced by Christine Mahoney,” Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 7(2), 131-132.

Other Scholarly Writing

Erdilmen, M. and Honohan, I. (2020). “How far do Citizenship Laws in European Union Member States Safeguard the Children Born there from Statelessness?,” European Network on Statelessness, June 2020.

Datasets

Honohan, I., Rougier, N., Bauböck, R., and Erdilmen, M. (2021). Global birthright indicators, EUI Research Data, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies – https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64605

Kayran, E., and Erdilmen, M. (2019). Political and Policy Determinants of Immigrant Voting Rights. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JSXTS6

Erdilmen, M. (2019). Enfranchisement of Non-Citizen Residents Across 60 Countries from 1975 to 2015. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DDZ14V