Meltem Yilmaz Sener is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Nord University, Norway. She had her PhD in Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the USA. Previously, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She aims to perform theoretically informed analyses of inequality at the global and country levels. Her research areas include social policy, migration, transnational studies, development, racial and ethnic studies, social inequality, and gender.