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Idil Atak

Dr. Idil Atak

Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
DepartmentLincoln Alexander School of Law

Idil Atak is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Director in the Department of Criminology of Toronto Metropolitan University. She is a member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration’s (IASFM) Executive Committee, the past president of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), and a research associate at Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law (McGill University).

She is currently conducting a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded research on the intersection of security, irregular migration and asylum. Idil served as a legal expert for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara, then as deputy to the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.