IBF welcomes guest researcher

Sule Özuekren is a guest researcher at IBF, from August 14th until August 30th. She will work together with Lars-Erik Borgegård, Roger Andersson and Lena Magnusson on residential patterns of immigrants in Sweden with particular reference to immigrants from Turkey.

Sule Özuekren graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Istanbul Technical University in 1974 and received her Phd in 1982 from the same university where she is currently a professor. She has worked with the ILO (Geneva) as an external collaborator in the field of housing co-operatives. During the early 1990s she was a guest reseracher at SIB in Gävle, where she studied the housing conditions of Turkish immigrants in Fittja. She has published widely on housing conditions, segregation, and housing careers of immigrants in Western Europe.