Middle East
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Book review: Migrant Workers in Turkish Agriculture: Patterns of Mobility and Dispossession (1990–2018) by Deniz Pelek
Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy (CASAS’ member) has reviewed this book authored by Deniz Pelek (also a CASAS’ member) in The Journal of Agrarian Change. Zeynep wrote in her review: “Rural Turkey has long been grappling with multiple crises. Neoliberal restructuring, forced displacement, conflict and war have resulted in the mass migration and dispossession of groups…
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Agri-labour mobility in a changing climate: A systems approach to vulnerability and precarity among migrant farmworkers
Sinem Kavak (CASAS’ member) has published this article with Mine Işlar & Lennart Olsson in World Development. Abstract: This research explores the climate vulnerability of migrant farmworkers within the climate-sensitive commercial agriculture of the Mediterranean Basin, through a case study of Turkey. In Turkey a vast majority of the farmworkers belong to Kurdish and Arab…
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Nothing to Eat but Cherries and Apples. Politics of Wheat Subsidies in Ishkoman Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Fizza Batool, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Geographien Südasiens. Abstract: Food security is presented as a major challenge for mountain communities in the Global South. In order to address food insecurity, the Government of Pakistan introduced the policy of subsidized wheat in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) in 1970s. What has been the…
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Permanently temporary: unveiling the im/mobility and intersecting vulnerabilities of migrant seasonal agricultural workers in disaster-affected areas of Türkiye
Deniz Pelek, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Agriculture and Human Values with Cemil Yıldızcan & Ethemcan Turhan. Abstract: Migrant seasonal agricultural workers around the world constitute the backbone of labor-intensive agriculture while facing the most grim consequences of societal, economic and environmental changes from slow and rapid on-set hazards. Here we examine the…