Dr. İbrahim Emre Yanık is a sociologist working on sociology of family, migration, and border studies. He received his PhD from the Department of Sociology at Syracuse University in 2025 with a dissertation titled "Stranded in Transit: Migrants' Borderland Experiences En Route to Europe." His research interests span sociology of family, migration, border studies, political sociology, and health disparities.

Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University, Yanık also serves as the Director of the MA Program in Family Studies. His work covers a wide range, from the work-family balance and bicultural identity experiences of second-generation devout Turkish women in Germany to the community experiences of formerly incarcerated Muslims navigating reentry, and the intersection of vaccine hesitancy with polarization and socioeconomic inequalities in digital public discourse. His articles have appeared in Community, Work & Family, Justice, Opportunities, and Rehabilitation, and PLOS ONE, and a book chapter examining the European border regime and Turkey's security walls through the lenses of sovereignty, the nation-state, and border externalization is included in the Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands. His work has been supported by Syracuse University's Roscoe Martin Fund, the Goekjian/Center for European Studies Research Grant, and the Manfred Stanley Memorial Graduate Scholarship.