Ayşe Çağlar

Short Biography

Ayşe Çağlar is a Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University and a Permanent Fellow at the IWM. She received her PhD at McGill University, Department of Anthropology and Habilitation in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Free University, Berlin. Before joining University of Vienna, she was a professor and the chair of Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest and was a Minerva Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen. She has held visiting professorships in several universities including Stockholm University, IHS Vienna, Central European University, Budapest, Donauuniversität Krems, and Ethnologisches Seminar Zürich. She was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (IUE), Florence.  She has served on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, Mirekoc, Istanbul and has been a member of the Advisory Board of NCCR, On Move (National Centres of Competence in Research, Swiss National Foundation) and Ethos, Horizon 2020. She has been a panel member of European Research Council (ERC – starting and consolidation grants) and DFG (Clusters of Excellence). She was the co-editor of journal Sociologus, the Associate Editor of Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs and is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Ethnologist, Focaal, Anthropological Theory, New Perspectives on Turkey, International Journal of Political Sociology. She is a member of Academia Europaea and the Science Academy Society of Turkey. She has widely published on processes of migration, urban restructuring, transnationalization and the state, and of dispossession and displacement. Her most recent comparative empirical research addressed the location of migrants in city-making processes especially in disempowered cities.

Fields of Research:

• Globalization, transnationalization processes and reconfiguration of states
• Critical migration studies and migrant industries
• Displacement, dispossession and urban restructuring
• Neoliberalization and capital restructuring
• Citizenship
• European cultural policies, migrant cultural production and cultural industries
• Nationalist discourses, popular culture, and consumer culture
• Deindustrialized cities

Recent Publications:

“Transnational Migration.” In Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, edited by Anna Triandafyllidou. London: Routledge, 2022. 

“Reorganization of borders, migrant workers, and the coloniality of power”. Citizenship Studies 26, no. 4–5 (25th Anniversary Special issue of Citizenship Studies) (2022): 401–410. 

A Special Issue on Displacements & Dispossessions, Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration 58, 2021 (co-edited with Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury). 

Urbaner Protest: Revolte in der neoliberalen Stadt (ed). Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2019.

Migrants and City Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration. Duke University Press, 2018 (co‐authored with Nina Glick Schiller).

Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018 (co‐edited by Nina Glick Schiller).

“Displacement of European Citizen Roma in Berlin: Sites of contentious politics.” Citizenship Studies 20, no 5 (2016): 647–663.

“Still ‘migrants’ after all those years: Foundational mobilities, temporal politics and emplacement as an analytical tactic”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42, no 6 (2016): 952–969.

“Anthropology of Citizenship.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by James D. Wright, 637–642. Amsterdam: Elsiver Ltd, 2015.