Zeynep Yanasmayan is a senior research fellow and coordinator of the Max Planck Society-funded research initiative 'The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion' at the Department of Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her research interests include migration and citizenship studies, governance of religious diversity, law and society and Turkish politics. She is the author of The Migration of Highly Educated Turkish Citizens to Europe: From Guestworkers to Global Talent (2019), and co-editor of Belief, Law and Politics: What Future for Secular Europe? (2014).