Elif Naz Kayran is a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University since August 2020. She was a junior visiting scholar in 2019-20 at Nuffield College and DPIR at Oxford. Elif received her PhD in political science from the Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID). On her doctoral dissertation, she explored the effects of socio-economic vulnerability and inequality on public attitudes towards immigration and support for radical right-wing parties. She currently works on topics related to comparative political economy, welfare states, immigration, voting rights, and citizenship studies. Related to Unequal Democracies, Elif investigates the relationship between trade unions and immigrant rights and the political participation gaps between immigrant and native citizens.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications related to Unequal Democracies:

• "Trade Union Power and Welfare Equality between Foreign and Native Workers in Advanced Democracies", Working paper n°45 (2023). Co-authored with Nadja MOSIMANN (University of Zürich)
• "Closing the Ethnic Turnout Gap? Inclusive Enfranchisement and Political Participation of Immigrants in Advanced Democracies", Working paper n°20 (2021). Co-authored with Anna-Lena Nadler (University of Geneva)
• "The Limits of Skill-Selective Migration Policies: Welfare States and the Commodification of Labour Immigrants.”, Journal of European Social Policy, v. 29, not 4 (2019), 478-497. Co-authored with Melanie Kolbe, Melanie. 
• "Can Institutions Shape Immigration Policy Preferences? The Conditioning Effects of Labor Market Policy Institutions on Unemployment Risks", Working paper n°5 (2019).