Gül Üret

Gül Üret is an ERC Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. As part of the SOLID project, her research examines how migrant deaths at Europe’s borders shape migration governance and policymaking. Through fieldwork among Greek and Spanish politicians, police and coast guard officers, she takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how policies are formulated at the highest levels of national governance and how they are interpreted, negotiated and implemented on the ground. 

Üret completed her PhD in Law and Politics at the University of Graz in May 2025, which was partially funded by the HRSM project Migration-Integration-Religiöse Vielfalt (2018-2020) funded by the Austrian Federal Government and a Rudi Roth scholarship (2020). Her doctoral research examined how Turkishness, migranthood and Muslimness are understood and experienced by Turkey-origin migrants and refugees in Athens, in context of Greek-Turkish nation-building and relations as well as Mediterranean migration in the mid-2010s. 

Prior to that she received an MA in International and Global History (2017) and a BA (2015) in History and European Studies, both from Aarhus University. Her broader research interests include the history, politics, and modern societies of Greece and Turkey, and broadly span the topics of migration and minorities, nationalism and ethnicity, identity politics, and political activism in the transnational space between the two countries. Üret has conducted fieldwork in Greece, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and has recently expanded her research to include Spain as an additional geographical focus. She is currently working on her first monograph, Intimate Strangers, which builds on her doctoral dissertation and extensive ethnographic research in Greece since 2018.