Biography
Nilüfer Akalın earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Binghamton University in 2021. Her research focuses on immigrant mobilities and the intersections of immigration status and race within the U.S. healthcare system, examining how these factors shape immigrants’ access to care. Using qualitative and ethnographic methods, she investigates how systemic inclusion and exclusion are negotiated in clinical encounters. Her current work has two main strands: the first analyzes the integration of immigratio
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Akalın, N. (2024). Immigrant-blind care: How immigrants experience the “inclusive” health system as they access care. Social Science & Medicine, 348(9). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116822
Gil-García, Ó. F., Akalın, N., Bove, F., Vener, S. (2024). Understanding the mobilities of indigenous migrant youth across the Americas. Social Sciences, 13(2): 91.