People
Publications
City-making through the Lens of Displacement
This SCAS Talks episode features Ayşe Çağlar, discussing cities through the lens of displacement. Caglar challenges the binary of “migrant” vs. “non-migrant,” arguing that displacement affects diverse populations, not just migrants. She emphasizes the importance of understanding how place and time shape experiences of migration, highlighting the limitations of solely focusing on mobility. Caglar’s research […]
Extractivist Governance of the Displaced and their Containment: Rethinking State, Capital, and Labor
In: Situating the Migration Industry: Governance, Capital Accumulation and Global Dehumanization. Special Issue edited by Nina Glick Schiller and Anna Triandafyllidou.
Urban governance of the displaced and emergency rules
The Limbo of Post-war Sur: A Strategy of Counterinsurgent Urban Governance
România, țara muncii ieftine, acum importată și din Sudul global [Romania, the country of cheap labor, now imported from the Global South]
In: Epoca Iohannis? România în 2014-2025, edited by Bâlici, M., Bîrnoiu, A., Lazăr, V., Rădoi, C., and Stan, V.
Events
Workshop on (Un)Chaining Disasters: Materials, Work, and the Everyday of Re-Configuration
The workshop invites case studies that examine supply chains, forms of work, and human experiences affected by disruptions such as wars and armed conflicts, industrial accidents, earthquakes, storms, wildfires, large-scale infrastructure failures, and other events involving material destruction and displacement. Kobe University
Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement
Anthropology Department and Keyman Centre for Turkish Studies, Northwestern University
Extractive Hospitality: Refugee Accommodation and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Greece
Workshop on Extractive Borders: Profiting from Migrants’ Forced Im/Mobility University of Bologna
Refugee Containment and the Political Economy of Aid at the EU Border
The Centre for the Study of International Migration, UCLA
Financialization, Extractivism, and the Governance of Migration
Scholars of Excellence Workshop The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
The Humanitarian Fix: Crisis Capitalism and Refugee Containment in Greece
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University