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

Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt
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.
Learn more about Ayse Caglar's research project
SCAS Talks Podcast - Episode 62: City-making through the Lens of Displacement External link, opens in new window.