Hatice Kurtuluş is a social scientist specialising in Urban Sociology and a lecturer at Istanbul University’s Faculty of Political Sciences. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Administration and a PhD in Urban Planning. Kurtuluş, who has been continuing her academic studies in the field of Urban Sociology since her PhD, has research and publications on Turkey’s urbanisation experience, Istanbul’s spatial history and urbanisation experience, the sociology of architecture, urban segregation, urban class geography and the spatiality of migration and immigration. In addition to publications based on her research in urban sociology and sociology of migration within Turkey, she has also carried out and published TÜBİTAK-supported research abroad in the TRNC with the project titled “Socio-Spatial Integration of Turkish Migrants in Northern Cyprus” and in Bielefeld University’s (Germany) Department of Sociology with a project titled “Spatial Retention Strategies of Turkish Migrants in the Deindustrialisation Process of the North Rhine-Westphalia Industrial Basin.”