Justyna SzalanskaJustyna Szalanska is an Affliate of the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, and a Research Assistant at the Collegium of Socio-Economics in SGH Warsaw School of Economics. She is also pursuing her PhD at the Faculty of Political Scienes and International Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her PhD dissertation focuses on a category of national identity and its materialisation in Turkey's foreign policy. In 2009 she received her MA Diploma in International Relations and in 2010 her BA Diploma in Turkish Studies from the University of Warsaw. In 2011 she was a Research Trainee at the BILGESAM, a Turkish think tank. In 2014 she was awarded TUBITAK Scholarship for Foreign Researchers in Turkey, which enabled her to be a Research Fellow at the Center of International and European Research at the Kadir Has University (Turkey) between November 2014 and May 2015. Her research interests focus on European integration, identity issues in Turkey and Europe, citizenship policies, and refugee and asylum seeker protection policies. She has been a key staff member on two Horizon 2020 projects: RESPOND Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond (2017-2020) and Investing in "Welcoming Spaces" in Europe: Revitalising Shrinking Areas by Hosting Non-EU Migrants (2020-2024). She is also a co-author of a short documentary on refugee perception in Poland, "Bez komentarza" ("Without a comment"), produced by the POLIN museum (2016) Read More Read Less