Elif Naz Kayran is a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and the Institute of Public Administration since August 2020 working on the research programme ‘Citizenship, Migration and Global Transformations’.

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Elif Naz Kayran is a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and the Institute of Public Administration since August 2020 working on the research programme ‘Citizenship, Migration and Global Transformations’.

Before joining Leiden University, she was a doctoral researcher at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute of Geneva (IHEID) and a junior visiting scholar at University of Oxford (2019-2020) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.  Elif holds an MA degree with distinction on International Political Economy from King’s College London.

Elif works on topics related to comparative political economy, welfare states, immigration, integration, and citizenship studies. On her doctoral dissertation, she explored the effects of socio-economic vulnerability and inequality on public attitudes towards immigration and support for radical right-wing parties.