Rate My Professor Emek Uçarer

Uçarer's research focuses on governance of immigration and asylum in the European Union, the role of nongovernmental organizations in international organizations, human trafficking and smuggling, European integration, international law, human rights, global migration, and political mobilization of ethnic and migrant diasporas. She teaches courses including International Law, Human Rights, Global Governance, International Relations of Migration, and International Relations of Europe. Notable awards include Bucknell University’s Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation American Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2005-2006, DAAD Faculty Research Visit Grant in 2011, and multiple Faculty Scholarly Development and International Travel Research Grants from Bucknell. Key publications feature co-edited books Migration and the Externalities of European Integration (Lexington Books, 2002) and Immigration into Western Societies: Problems and Policies (Pinter, 1997); journal articles such as “The External Dimension of Europeanization: The Case of Immigration Policies” with Sandra Lavenex (Cooperation and Conflict, 2004), “Burden-Shirking, Burden-Shifting, and Burden-Sharing in the Emergent European Asylum Regime” (International Politics, 2006), and “Tempering the EU? NGO Advocacy in the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice” (Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2014); and recurring chapters on “Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice” and “Justice and Home Affairs” in editions of European Union Politics (Oxford University Press, 2003-2016).