Hasret Saygı

@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

Great to meet @hasretsaygi yesterday and chat about all things #housing. Her new book on shared housing in London’s toxic private rental sector is a fascinating analysis of household dynamics, precarious and anxieties. Well worth reading!

@PaulWatt1232 Many thanks, Paul. I really appreciate your thoughtful and generous comments on the book.🙏

My book is about London’s single millennials sharing houses with strangers. It examines how “home” is built through everyday interaction in London’s shared houses. It treats housing precarity as a communicative and social crisis. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

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.

Join us on January 14th for an important educational seminar focused on supporting Turkish as a heritage language in the UK. 🔗 Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/educational-… 🗣️ The seminar will be conducted primarily in Turkish.

@Nick_Ashdown That resonates with what we saw in our London fieldwork: a newer Turkish diaspora clustering in Richmond (a high-income borough). Even when it strains their budgets, the location helps maintain familiar class boundaries, privileges and networks. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Had an interesting conversation with a group of Turkish friends living in Europe about white collar Turks who move here, then move back to Turkey because they don’t like it. The reason we came up with is that they’re used to being part of a ruling class in Turkey, served hand and

Also had time to reflect on forced migration to Turkey, through two co-authored Turkish articles • Heritage language education of Syrian children in Istanbul dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jlere/a… • Shifting values of Arabic in TR as it becomes associated with refugees dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/huefd/a…

Another highlight was my collaboration with Dr. Sara Young. We looked at how Turkish families integrate into the British education system and their educational migration processes, everyday challenges they face around schooling, language, and belonging. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

As 2025 comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on how much I learned and grew through the projects I worked on. A major turning point was publishing my first book on London's shared houses, genuinely the most exciting milestone for me. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

@WeAreTandF @tandfonline Thanks so much! It’s been a really smooth and positive publishing experience.

@hasretsaygi @tandfonline Congratulations and thank you for publishing with us!

📢 My open-access article with Dr. Sara Young is out in JMMD. We explore the growing trend of Turkish middle-class families migrating to the West for their children’s education, framing it as both a sacrifice and an aspiration. @tandfonline @WeAreTandF #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@aliawhs @ibrar_bhatt Thanks a lot Alia☺️🙏

@isilresearch @tandfonline @WeAreTandF Thanks a lot hocam! We also worked with children and explored their language brokering practices as well as the English support (EAL) they received from local schools in London after moving to the UK and starting school as 1.5-generation migrants. Those findings are forthcoming😊

@hasretsaygi @tandfonline @WeAreTandF Congratulations Hasret! Great topic!

Yet, migration often comes with hidden costs: downward mobility for parents, pressure on children to “succeed,” and family tensions around language, identity, and belonging. Mothers’ stories reveal both hope and hardship in this pursuit of the “British dream.”

Drawing on in-depth interviews with mothers in London, we examine how families invest emotionally, linguistically, and financially in their children’s futures, idealising Western schooling as a path to global opportunity and belonging.

UCL’de görev yapan Dr. Sara Young ve Dr. Hasret Saygı, iki dilli çocukların eğitimi üzerine görüş alışverişinde bulunmak için Müşavirliğimizi ziyaret etti. Nazik ziyaretleri için teşekkür ederiz. #İkidillilik #Eğitim #UCL @tcmeb @mebyyegm @mebabdigm @hasretsaygi

Amazing #BAAL2025 in Glasgow! Warm hospitality from the City Chambers, inspiring talks & reconnections. Proud my UCL Honorary Appointment is extended 3 more years 🙌 Also a fruitful London meeting with the Turkish Education Counsellor’s Office to plan our research! @UofGlasgow

'Risky Communications and Precarity in London's Shared Housing' examines the experiences of single professionals living in shared housing in London, focusing on how language, communication, and social inequalities shape these living arrangements. bit.ly/4g2auKZ

#NewBook alert: 'Risky Communications and Precarity in London's Shared Housing: Speaking Home' by Hasret Saygı has just been #PublishedByPalgrave! This #PalgravePivot explores how language influences access to housing and dynamics within shared houses: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…