Birce Altıok is General Coordinator and Post-doc researcher at Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc). She completed her Ph.D. studies at Koc University in International Relations in 2021. She received her MA in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University (2011) and BS in Global and International Affairs from Binghamton (SUNY) and Boğaziçi University (2010). Her Ph.D. dissertation comparatively researched refugee activism with a special focus on state-civil society relations. She has publications on foreign policy, social cohesion, and civil society. Her research interests include forced migration, refugee activism, and state policies.