Publications

Tunaboylu, S. Mallet-Garcia, M., Rué, A., Vargas-Silva, C. & Jubany, O. (In revision) ‘Beyond Deportation: Regularization and Voluntary Return as Alternative Policy Approaches to Irregular Migration in Spain and the United Kingdom’ Comparative Migration Studies. 

Ozdemir, G. S., Faustini Torres, L. & Tunaboylu, S. (In revision) ‘Invisible Cost of Visibility: Affective and Emotional aspects of the relationship between migrants and identification documents in Spain’ Journal of Sociology.  

Rajabzadeh, I. Kuschminder, K. Tunaboylu, S., Dogan, B. & Grede, N. (2025) ‘The Emergency Social Safety Net Cash Transfer and Syrian Refugees Migration Aspirations in Türkiye’  https://doi.org/10.1177/21632324251331316. OPEN ACCESS. 

Tunaboylu, S. (2024) ‘Temporary turn in the asylum regime and the deportable refugee: the case of Syrians in Türkiye’ Journal of Refugee Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feae025  ACCESSIBLE upon request via ResearchGate. 

Tunaboylu, S. & van Liempt, I. (2020) ‘A Lack of Legal Protection and Limited Ways Out: How Asylum Seekers Cope with Liminality on Greek Islands: Lesbos and Chios’, Journal of Refugee Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa002 ACCESSIBLE upon request via ResearchGate. 

Rué, A., Tunaboylu, S. & Jubany, O. (Upcoming) ‘Questioning the necessity of detention in Spain’. In the Special Issue edited by Slavnic, Z. Brill Edited Volume. 

Tunaboylu, S.  & Rué, A. (Upcoming) ‘Despotismo simbólico como duplicidad, deseo y violencia. Caso de los trabajadores sociales en el programa de acogida del sistema de asilo en España: la naturaleza contradictoria del deseo de hacer el bien.’ Ed. por Jubany, O., Motterle, L. & Ausona, M. Deseos [re]negados: Cartografiando relaciones, contradicciones y utopías. Bellaterra Edicions. 

Jubany, O. & Tunaboylu, S. (2025). ‘We have to regularise them’: Europe’s deportation-first border policy, as told by the judges and police who enforce it’. The Conversation. Versión CAS: Las deportaciones de inmigrantes frente a la regularización: hablan jueces, policías y fiscales. The Conversation ES.

Tunaboylu, S.  & Rué, A. (2025) ‘Blog Post: Symbolic despotism as hypocrisy, desire and violence: The Ironies of Humanitarianism in Spain’s Asylum System’ The Project MORE Website Publications.

Tunaboylu, S.  & Rué, A. (2024) ‘Questioning the necessity of pre-removal detention: the Case of Spain’ The Project MORE Website Publications.

Tunaboylu, S. (2016) ‘Review: Post-deportation Risks: Criminalized departure and risk for returnees in countries of origin’, Rights in Exile Newsletter. 

Tunaboylu, S., Rué, A., & Jubany, O. (2025). Alternative policy approaches to RR: regularisation and other recognised statuses. Case study Spain [Executive Summary]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14832993

Tunaboylu, S., Rué, A., & Jubany, O. (2025). Report on the development of the Return and Readmission policy across Europe: multilevel analysis, Case Study: Spain [Executive Summary]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14832961

Alpes, M. J., Tunaboylu, S. &van Liempt, I. (2017) ‘Human rights violations by design: EU-Türkiye Statement prioritises returns over access to asylum’, EUI Policy Brief (29). OPEN ACCESS.

Alpes, M. J., Tunaboylu, S., Ulusoy, O., Hassan, S. (2017) ‘Post-deportation risks under the EU-Türkiye Statement: What happens after readmission to Türkiye’, EUI Policy Brief (30). OPEN ACCESS.

van Liempt, I.C., Alpes, M.J., Hassan S., Tunaboylu, S., Ulusoy U., Zoomers, E.B. (2017) ‘Evidence based assessment of migration deals: The case of the EU Türkiye Statement’, Utrecht University. OPEN ACCESS.

Tunaboylu, S. & Alpes, J (2017) ‘The EU-Türkiye deal: what happens to people who return to Türkiye?’ , Forced Migration Review. OPEN ACCESS. 

Tunaboylu, S (2022) ‘Book Review: Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers’ Border Criminologies. 

Tunaboylu, S. (2016) ‘Review: Refugee Law in South Africa. Edited by Fatima Khan and Tal Schreier’, Journal of Refugee Studies. ACCESSIBLE upon request via ResearchGate.