Ibrahim Sirkeci is Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing at Regent's College. He is the Director of the Regent's Centre for
Transnational Studies. He is also the Pathway Leader of MA in International Marketing Programme at European Business School London.
Before joining the College, Prof Sirkeci worked as a Leverhulme Research Fellow at The Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship in
the University of Bristol (2005) and as an Assistant Professor in Management and Head of Department in Tourism Management in a
private university in Ankara, Turkey (2003-2004).
Professor Sirkeci is founder and Managing Editor of Migration Letters journal which is co-edited by Jeffrey H. Cohen, Elli Heikkila and Carla
De Tona. Migration Letters is the first ever letter-type international scholarly journal of migration studies launched in 2003 and is a well
known, premium outlet for research publications in migration studies.
He is currently leading the Transnational Marketing Journal, a new journal to promote research in this new field of study. Borderless
marketing and transnationally mobile consumers and marketing practices are main areas to be covered in this journal which also
promotes critical and innovative approaches and methods in studying marketing.
Prof. Sirkeci's research spans into various multidisciplinary areas including marketing of higher education, transnational consumers,
segmentation, segregation, mobility, transnational space, ethnic marketing, ethnic conflict, remittances, immigrant businesses, and
reproductive health. His research has attracted funding from international funding bodies including the European Commission, the British
Academy, the World Bank, and the UK Higher Education Academy.
Professor Sirkeci has published several books, many book chapters, journal articles and other research pieces at prestigious outlets
including journals such as Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, Environment and Planning A, International Migration, Ethnic and
Racial Studies, Population Review, and Journal of Biosocial Science. He has also been a regular contributor to various international
refereed conferences of learned societies and associations including the Marketing Science Society, Academy of Marketing, IUSSP, EAPS,
and BSPS.
His ethnographic work titled The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany is published by
Edwin Mellen Press in 2006. His most recent book titled Cultures of Migration - co-authored with Jeffrey Cohen- is published by the
University of Texas Press.
Prof Sirkeci is interested in amateur poetry and cyber communities. Some of his amateur poetry, as well as the micronation Freelonia can
be found here.
