Saeid Mozafari

After completing my high school education in Iran, I moved to Turkey in 2011 to pursue undergraduate studies in Sociology. I graduated in 2017 and later, in 2022, completed my master’s degree in Sociology, successfully defending my thesis. My academic interests and training lie in two main areas: migration, refugee and asylum studies, and gender studies, with a particular focus on critical masculinity studies. My undergraduate thesis examined how the social tolerance of Iranian asylum seekers in Ankara varies according to their ethnicity. An extended version of this research was later accepted by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) under the scope of BAP 105: Comprehensive Research Project. My master’s thesis, Construction of New Masculinities Transformed by Migration: Married Syrian Men Living in Ankara, was published in 2023 as a book titled Triple Alliance Against Masculinity: War, Migration, and Poverty in the Case of Syrians in Ankara.
Alongside my academic work, I have been actively engaged with local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the field of migration and refugee protection, including the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, the Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Turkey. In these roles, I have worked as an outreach worker and interpreter with vulnerable refugee groups in Ankara, including Iranians, Afghans, and Syrians.
My doctoral project, New Formations of Traditional Masculinity in Altered Living Conditions: The Case of Syrians and Afghans in Germany, is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the University of Göttingen. In August 2025, I relocated to Göttingen, where I am currently a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Global Migration (CeMig), conducting my research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess.