Hasret Saygı

Working on migration and language? Our study with Turkish adolescents in London explores how family responsibilities shape language learning through brokering, and how young people turn demanding encounters into learning opportunities.
S. Young & H. Saygı
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨If language is “the key to integration,” what happens when people have the key but are still not allowed through the door?
My new article explores this through the politics of legitimate speakership and Arabic in Turkey.
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doi.org/10.51726/jlr.1…

Visual credit: @trilcegarcia

At #AAAL2026 in Chicago, I spoke about my book, which examines the housing crisis through a sociolinguistic lens. I specifically focused on how language shapes access to housing and how unequal linguistic capital and migrancy produces precarity in shared homes.

A brilliant conversation today with @PaulWatt1232 on how housing crises are lived and negotiated in everyday life. My book frames shared housing as a communicative crisis, while Paul’s work offers powerful insights into regeneration and social mixing. Excited about the overlaps.

@yeelondra ev sahipliğinde, @LondraEgitim işbirliğiyle İngiltere'de görev yapan öğretmenlerimize eğitim semineri gerçekleştirdik. Londra'da göçmen ailelerle ikidillilik ve kimlik üzerine UCL'den Dr. Sara Young ile yürüttüğümüz çalışmamızın bulgularını öğretmenlerimizle tartıştık