Evren Yalaz is a senior postdoctoral researcher at Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration, University of Pompeu Fabra (GRITIM-UPF). She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University. Her research interests engage with questions about the political mobilization and participation of migrants; transnationalism; migrants' community organizations; comparative politics of citizenship and integration regimes; qualitative methodology in migration studies. Her dissertation research examined sources of variations in degrees and trajectories of immigrant political incorporation by focusing on Turkish immigrants and their organizations in Germany and France. She has been involved in various research projects both at national and international level. She co-coordinates IMISCOE Research Group on Qualitative and Conceptual Research in Migration Studies.