Ayse Caglar

Ayse Caglar is a sociologist and anthropologist and was a professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University, Budapest, before joining the University of Vienna in 2011. She is also a permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. She has held visiting professorships and fellowships at various European universities, including Jean Monnet (EUI) and Minerva (Max Planck Göttingen) fellowships, and is a member of the Academia Europaea. She has co-directed the research platforms Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration at IWM and Challenges of Urban Futures: Governing the Complexities in European Cities at the University of Vienna.

Caglar’s work and publications focus on the interfaces of migration, urban restructuring, dispossession, displacement, confined labor, extractivism, and transformations of statehood and the governance of cities. She has edited, co-edited and co-authored Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants (Cornell University Press, 2010); Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration (Duke University Press, 2018); and Urbaner Protest. Revolte in der neoliberalen Stadt (Passagen Verlag, 2019). She has a forthcoming co-edited book, Sites of Statelessness: Laws, Cities, Seas (Albany: SUNY Press, 2024).