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City-Level Border Practices, EU Externalisation, and the Governance of Irregular Migration in Türkiye
Online only
This presentation explores how irregular migration is governed through sharply differentiated city-level practices in Türkiye, revealing a hidden geography of pushbacks and pushforwards. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork in Van, Iğdır, Edirne, and İzmir, the webinar session demonstrates how border control varies dramatically across geopolitical contexts, migration routes, and European Union externalisation policies. By foregrounding cities as critical sites of migration governance, the analysis demonstrates how local actors, infrastructures, and spatial practices become central to managing irregular migration beyond formal legal categories.
The findings highlight the importance of city-level perspectives for understanding contemporary border governance and raise broader questions for European cities about responsibility-sharing, informal containment practices, and the human rights implications of differentiated migration control regimes.
Register in advance for this meeting: zoom.us/my/globalexchange?pwd=Leg0c2vc0qBp797m1urqaie8cQ9Zhq.1&omn=95791367141
Date:
10 March 2026, 14:00
Venue:
Zoom
Speaker:
Ela Gökalp-Aras (Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul)
Organising department:
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Organiser:
Myriam Cherti (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
info@compas.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Myriam Cherti (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Part of:
C-MISE Research Exchange Webinars
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/c-mise-research-exchange-webinars
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Nathan Grassi
