Publications
Forthcoming
Handbook
In: Special Issue on Spatialising authoritarian legalities: Excavating the social life of spacemaking through law in authoritarian contexts, edited by Viswanath, R., Yesmin, F. & Suresh, M.
In: Special Issue on Administrative Limbo, edited by Belloni, M. and Kleizen, B.
In: Situating the Migration Industry: Governance, Capital Accumulation and Global Dehumanization. Special Issue edited by Nina Glick Schiller and Anna Triandafyllidou.
In: Fifty years of Europe and the People Without History, edited by Kalb, D., and Narotzky, S.
Published
2026
In: Special Issue on Violence and Urban Transformation in Turkey, edited by Dölek, Ç. & Crane, N. J.
2025
In: Epoca Iohannis? România în 2014-2025, edited by Bâlici, M., Bîrnoiu, A., Lazăr, V., Rădoi, C., and Stan, V.
In: Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems, edited by Follis, L., Follis, K., & Burns, N.
In: Special Issue on Situating Global Warfare in Historical Conjuncture (Theme Section), co-edited with Yüksel-Pecen, S.
Theme Section
2024
Master’s Thesis in Sociology and Social Anthropology
Invited Commentary
In: Asylum and Conversion to Christianity in Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches, edited by Öztürk, E., & Rose L.
2023
Master’s Thesis in Sociology and Social Anthropology
In: IWMpost 131: Migration, Displacement, and Governance (Spring/Summer)
In: Industrial Labour in an Unequal World: Ethnographic Perspectives on Uneven and Combined Development, edited by Strümpell, C. & Hoffman, M.
In: Cities, Migration, and Governance Beyond Scales and Levels, edited by Hillmann F., and Samers M.
2022
Master’s Thesis in Sociology and Social Anthropology
2021
2018
In: Between Insecurity and Hope: Reflections on youth work with young refugees, edited by Pisani, M., Basarab, T., Bello, B. G., and Laine, S.
2017
2015
Bachelor’s Thesis in Anthropology
2011
Other Media
The co-editors Ayşe Çağlar, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, and Ranabir Samaddar discussed their book Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (SUNY Press, 2024) in conversation with Paolo Novak and Yuri Kazepov. The discussion was moderated by Ayşe Çağlar.
Statelessness is incessantly produced in seas, cities, and law. Building around the postcolonial experiences of this statelessness, the book examines the entanglements of citizenship policies and practices with the spread of statelessness in contemporary times, something that defies any kind of citizen/stateless binary.
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 govern communities. She is joined by Ana Ćuković, whose research looks at how displacement unfolds in cities, including Detroit through urban planning and policy, and how historical and economic contexts shape who is included or pushed out of cities.
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 uses the concept of displacement to connect varied groups experiencing dislocation and dispossession within cities. She examines the contributions of migrants to city-making, underscoring their role in generating wealth and power, while also recognizing the simultaneous struggles for resources and justice they face. The discussion extends to her ongoing SCAS project investigating the historical and political geographies of cities, focusing on Linz and Essen.
The animation highlights the worst forms of child labour as recognized by the ILO, depicting children working at night in oriental tobacco fields in western Türkiye.