Sergen Bahceci
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Citizenship/Statelessness/Nationality
- Coercive Population Control
- Corruption/Impunity
- Deportees/Criminal Deportees
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Ex-Combatant Reintegration
- Forced Conscription
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Honor-Based Violence
- Journalist Persecution
- Land Tenure Dispute
- LGBTQ
- Likelihood Of Destitution/Homelessness
- Mental Illness
- Political Persecution
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Trafficking
About Sergen Bahceci
Sergen Bahceci is a political anthropologist who examines violence and its role in constituting everyday life and lived experiences. He completed a PhD in Anthropology at LSE in 2023. For his doctoral research, he conducted 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in northern Cyprus among elderly war veterans and younger generations of Cypriots who were born after the island’s civil war (1955 – 1974).
Following his PhD, he worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology where he was employed to conduct digital ethnographic fieldwork in Macclesfield, England, on everyday experiences of crime-related insecurity. He previously taught anthropology at Goldsmiths and University College London, and also worked for the UN Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus in 2020. He has also provided COI expert witness report for deportation order appeal tribunals.
