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 […]
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.
On migration, displacement, and urban transformation
In this episode (season 4, episode 4) of the Borders and Belonging podcast series at the CERC in Migration and Integration, Ayşe Çağlar shares how her experiences growing up in Turkey and living in multiple countries shaped her approach to using migrants as an entry point to explore how societies define themselves, draw boundaries, and […]
Events
Architectures of containment and governance: displacement, extractivism, and city-making (1/2)
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)
co-organized with Paolo Novak RC21 Urban and Regional Development Conference: Ineuqalities and the City University of Vienna
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