People

Publications

Extractivist governance of the displaced and their containment: rethinking state, capital, and labor

Ayşe Çağlar - Journal Article
Ethnic and Racial Studies 2026

In: Special Issue on Situating the Migration Industry: Governance, Capital Accumulation and Global Dehumanization edited by Glick Schiller, N. & Triandafyllidou, A.

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

Seeing Through One Health: The Disaster Economy of Recycling in Post-Earthquake Türkiye

Umut Kuruüzüm co-authored with Ann-Christin Zuntz, Ertan Karabıyık, Afnan El-Gayar, Lisa Boden - Report
University of Edinburgh, Development Workshop 2025

Events

Architectures of containment and governance: displacement, extractivism, and city-making (1/2)

Ayşe Çağlar - Convenor
Jul 2026 - 14:00 - Vienna, Austria

co-organized with Paolo Novak RC21 Urban and Regional Development Conference: Ineuqalities and the City University of Vienna

Architectures of containment and governance: displacement, extractivism, and city-making (2/2)

Ayşe Çağlar - Convenor
Jul 2026 - 16:30 - Vienna, Austria

co-organized with Paolo Novak RC21 Urban and Regional Development Conference: Ineuqalities and the City University of Vienna

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