Bio
Berfin Nur Osso is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki. Osso’s doctoral research project Access to Right to Have Rights: Managing Migration at the EU’s External Borders investigates the interplay between the externalization of migration management and the political agency of refugees. This socio-legal project merges theoretical and empirical analyses in the Greek-Turkish context by focusing on the intersections of law, social sciences, and visual methods.
Osso holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree and a minor degree in International Relations from Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey) in 2017, and a Master of Social Sciences (MSocSc) degree in International Relations and Political Science from Tampere University (Finland) in 2019. She had research experience in various organizations and institutions, including as a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research at Radboud University (2023), Project Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (2021-2022), Research Assistant at Migration Research Center (MiReKoc) at Koç University (2017) and the Institute of International Relations Prague (2016). Aside from research, Osso is also enthusiastic as a political cartoonist about reflecting on the contemporary phenomena within the realm of law, politics, and society in her editorial cartoons.
List of publications can be found at her Home Institution’s Website. With RLI, she published blog posts, including a short piece entitled ‘Of Borders and Hypocrisy: The Very Thin Line Between Protection and Expulsion’ (2022).
List of recent publications
- Osso, B. N. (Accepted/In press). Unpacking the Safe Third Country Concept in the European Union: B/Orders, Legal Spaces, and Asylum in the Shadow of Externalization. International Journal of Refugee Law.
- Osso, B. N. (2022). Of Borders and Hypocrisy: The Very Thin Line Between Protection and Expulsion. RLI Blog on Refugee Law and Forced Migration. https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2022/06/14/of-borders-and-hypocrisy-the-very-thin-line- between-protection-and-expulsion.
- Osso, B. N. (2022). Stories that Refugee Artworks Tell: Using the ‘Visual’ in Socio-Legal Research. Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Blog. https://frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/artwork-stories.