Gamze Ovacık
Gamze Ovacık is a Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University Faculty of Law Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, co-supervised by Prof. François Crépeau and Prof. Nandini Ramanujam. Previously, she was an assistant professor at Başkent Law School and a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Law of the University of Gothenburg within the ASILE Project on global asylum governance and the European Union’s role. Her work intersects international human rights law and refugee law, and her current research focuses on policies for the externalisation of migration control, judicial practices on asylum, and Global South approaches to global mobility. She is also interested in broader topics of human rights law and international law, including state compliance with international human rights obligations and the instrumentality of international law in achieving climate justice. Gamze is the coordinator of the Refugee Law Initiative Externalisation Working Group and an attorney qualified in Turkey.