migration
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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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Turn the Tide – Filipino Oil Palm Migrant Workers in Sabah
CASAS’ member Carlo Arceo has created a short animation based on his doctoral project. Abstract: The research explores the intersection of agrarian squeeze, irregular migration, and labor and border regimes in two agrarian frontiers in Southeast Asia. The animation follows the journey of a six-member migrant household from Palawan, Philippines, who irregularly cross the maritime…
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Who is who in CASAS? Deniz Pelek
Deniz Pelek is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at İzmir Democracy University in Türkiye. She received her PhD degree from the Atatürk Institute at Boğaziçi University and the Geopolitical Institute at Paris-8 University (2019) within the framework of the double doctoral degree programme (cotutelle). Her research interests are critical agrarian studies, migration…