People

Publications

Extractivist Governance of the Displaced and their Containment: Rethinking State, Capital, and Labor

Ayşe Çağlar - Journal Article
Ethnic and Racial Studies

In: Situating the Migration Industry: Governance, Capital Accumulation and Global Dehumanization. Special Issue edited by Nina Glick Schiller and Anna Triandafyllidou.

Destruction and extraction: reading Wolf at the edge of Europe

Ayşe Çağlar - Book Chapter
Berghahn Books

In: Fifty years of Europe and the People Without History, edited by Kalb, D., and Narotzky, S. 

Urban governance of the displaced and emergency rules

Ayşe Çağlar - Journal Article
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and the City 2026

Digitised Migration: Entangled and Uneven Landscapes

Ana Ćuković, Ayşe Çağlar co-edited with Paolo Novak, Giorgia Dona, Manish K. Jha - Special Issue
International Migration Journal 2026

Trapped Under the Orient’s Night: Blind-Sourced Child Labour in Contract Tobacco Farming

Umut Kuruüzüm - Journal Article
Journal of Agrarian Change 2026

Expanded extractivism, confinement, and (im)mobilized labor in city-making: a longue durée perspective

Ayşe Çağlar - Journal Article
Dialectical Anthropology 2025

Events

Workshop on Spaces and Traces of Containment: Architectures of Extractivism

Ayşe Çağlar - Organizer
Dec 2025 - Vienna, Austria

Migrants and Urban Politics: Governing the Displaced and Cities, IWM

Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement

Ayşe Çağlar - Speaker
Nov 2025 - Illinois, USA

Anthropology Department and Keyman Centre for Turkish Studies, Northwestern University

Extractivism Expanded: Confined Labor, Regimes of Containment, and City-making

Ayşe Çağlar - Speaker
Nov 2025 - Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster, University of Balsillie School of International Affairs

Extractive Hospitality: Refugee Accommodation and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Greece

Danai Avgeri - Participant
Oct 2025 - Bologna, Italy

Workshop on Extractive Borders: Profiting from Migrants’ Forced Im/Mobility University of Bologna

Financialization, Extractivism, and the Governance of Migration

Ayşe Çağlar - Convenor
Oct 2025 - Toronto, Canada

Scholars of Excellence Workshop The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University

Refugee Rentierism, Racialised Extractivism and the Spatio-racial Fix of Humanitarian Assistance in Times of Capitalist Crisis

Danai Avgeri - Presenter
Apr 2025 - Athens, Greece

Historical Materialism Conference