The Research Centre on Asylum and Migration

IGAM, The Research Centre on Asylum and Migration, was founded in 2013 by a group of academics, researchers, journalists and humanitarian workers, as an independent and non-profit association to fill the void of there not beeing any independent research center in Turkey dealing with asylum and migration.

The purpose of the organization; To contribute to the development of international refugee laws and principals, and to promote the effective implementation of these in Turkey. The main activities of the organisation are to conduct academic studies on this subject, support accademic research, create a databases, raise public awareness, organizie training and establish networks.