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 and refugee studies. She is the author of “Migrant Workers in Turkish Agriculture: Patterns of Mobility and Dispossession (1990-2018)”, which was published by the Atatürk Cultural Center, was awarded the prize for the best doctoral dissertation by the Scientific Research Projects Commission of Boğaziçi University in 2019/2020. Her articles appeared in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, Qualitative Research, Migrations & Société and Toplum ve Bilim. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the MIGRADEMO Project funded by the European Research Council at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona from 2020 to 2023. She is still a research collaborator in the MIGRADEMO Project and she is an affiliated researcher in the Transnational Relations, Democratization and Migration (TransDEM) research group at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. She has been a member of the CASAS since 2019.
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.