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How do migrants shape the cities we live in? How do migrants’ presence and agency relate to pressing urban challenges, such as gentrification and lack of affordable housing? In this event, Ayşe Çağlar and Sophie Gonick reflect on these and other questions that bring the migrant experience to the center of how we understand urban politics and transformation. Both authors’ works refute popular assumptions of migrant communities as situated at the margins of society and in need of integration. Instead, they shed light on migrants’ social relationships, religious practices, entrepreneurialism, and political leadership that make up the urban fabric and pave the way for social change.
The event will be structured around a conversation between Çağlar and Gonick on their recent books:
Sophie Gonick: Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid. 2021. Stanford University Press
Ayse Çaglar and Nina Glick Schiller: Migrants and City Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration. 2018. Duke University Press.
Registered attendees will receive the zoom link via email.
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research.
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Ayse Caglar is a Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the
University of Vienna and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna. Currently she is a Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. Her recent work focuses on the interface between migrants and city-making processes and urban politics.
Sophie L. Gonick is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU with an emphasis on Global Urban Humanities. Gonick's work emerges at the intersection of planning history, critical race and gender studies, and debates on migration, integration, and inclusion, particularly within the context of Southern Europe.
Achilles Kallergis is the Director of the Cities and Migration Project at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. His research focuses on urbanization, migration and mobility in rapidly growing cities. Specifically, it explores how locally-generated data can provide new evidence on mobility patterns and contribute to improving living conditions in low-income urban settings through better provision of housing and services.
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Ayse Caglar is a Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the
University of Vienna and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna. Currently she is a Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. She taught and held fellowships at various European universities, including European University Institute, Stockholm University, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity. Her recent work focuses on the interface between migrants and city-making processes and urban politics and has co-edited a special issue of Refugee Watch on Displacements and Dispossessions (2022), an edited volume Urbaner Protest; Revolte in der neoliberalen Stadt (Passagen Verlag, 2019); co-authored Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration (Duke University Press, 2018); and co-edited Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants (Cornell University Press, 2010). She has a forthcoming (co-edited) volume on Sites of Statelessness: Law, Cities and Seas (SUNY Press).
