Ayse Caglar

Fellow, SCAS.
University Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.
Permanent Fellow, IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

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).

While at SCAS, she will work on her book project, which traces the continuities in the political economy
of the containment and governance of the displaced as inscribed in different labor regimes over time.
Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, this project seeks to re-historicize and re-theorize the
politics of migration and city-making in and beyond Europe.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2024-25.