Sociolinguist- Multilingualism & Migration- 🎓Honorary Research Fellow @ucl @IOE_London| MA @KingsCollegeLon PhD @Unibogazici| 💼@Ist29MayisUni
London, England
Joined June 2013
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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
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🚨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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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. – at Chicago, IL
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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!
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.
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.
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/10.10…
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Join us on January 14th for an important educational seminar focused on supporting Turkish as a heritage language in the UK.
🔗 Register here:
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🗣️ The seminar will be conducted primarily in Turkish.
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/10.10…
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.…
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/jler…
• Shifting values of Arabic in TR as it becomes associated with refugees dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/huef…
📢 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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'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
ALT Risky Communications and Precarity in London's Shared Housing
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#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/10.10…
Exciting news! My first monograph from @Palgrave is out for pre-order! A sociolinguistic take on how language, inequality and shared living practices shape life in London’s shared homes.
Millennials, this one’s for (and about) you!
👉Amazon pre-order link bit.ly/4lrsekL
