Dr. Mert Pekşen

Mert Pekşen ist Sozial- und Politikgeograph und seit 2021 Mitglied des Instituts für Geographie (IfG) und des Instituts für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS) der Universität Osnabrück.

Seine Promotion schloss Pekşen am Graduate Center, City University of New York im Juni 2021 mit einer Dissertation zum Thema „Displacing the border: Refugees, law, and geography in Turkey“ (Juni 2021) ab. In seiner Dissertation untersuchte er die Politiken und Praktiken, mit denen die Türkei die Grenze auf verschiedenen geografischen Ebenen (re)konstruiert, um die Mobilität und Verteilung von Geflüchteten zu kontrollieren.

Pekşens Forschungsinteressen sind Grenzen und Grenzregime, geographische Migrationsforschung, politische Geographien der Migration, Geographien des Rassismus, Stadtforschung, legal geography, Erinnerungspolitik, und kritisiche Kartographie.

Er ist der lokale Koordinator des EuMIGS Double-Degree-Programms sowie der stellvertretende Koordinator der EuMIGS Erasmus+ Kooperationspartnerschaft.

Publikationen

Pekşen, M. (2022). Reluctant border agents: Enlistment of transportation workers in procedures to limit refugee mobilities in Turkey. Citizenship Studies, 1–16. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2137945

Peksen, M. (2021) Displacing the border: Refugees, law, and geography in Turkey. Graduate Center, City University of New York. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4355/ Available upon request.

Peksen, M. (2013) A Conceptual discussion on forced migration: A case study of displacement of Kurds in Turkey during 1990s. Diemen: AMB Press.

Presentationen (Auswahl)

2022. "Internal borders, illegality, and deportation". Social Justice, Cities, Citizenship Research Group, University of Leeds. November 23.

2021. “Production of Syrian refugee illegality”. Geographies of the Law: Inquiries into the Space-Law Tangle. University of Turin. December 14.

2021. “Production of refugee illegality”. New Directions in Law and Society. Center for Justice, Law, and Societies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. October 9.

2021. “Future-making while waiting for resettlement in Turkey”. 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference. July 8.

2021. “Reluctant border agents: The contested role of transportation workers in refugee mobility governance in Turkey”. 4th CeMig Migration Lab – Socio-legal Perspectives on Borders. University of Göttingen, January 22.

2020. “Double rescaling: City as a confinement space for refugees in Turkey”. 4th International Conference for Carceral Geography. Brussels, December 15.

2019. “Travel documents, vehicles, and drivers: Governing large-scale refugee mobility in Turkey”. Governing Migration Beyond ‘Fortress Europe’, Cambridge, UK. September 17.

2019. “Displacing the border: New spaces and actors of governing refugee mobility in Turkey”. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. April 3.

2017. "The EU-Turkey deal: Can Turkey solve Europe's refugee reception crisis?" EES Student Research Day, CUNY, April 7.

2013. "An analytical approach to displacement of Kurds in Turkey during the 1990s", Forced Migration: Global Perspectives and Practices, UCL Migration Unit Conference, University College London, June 12.