What does belonging look like when citizenship is out of reach? Drawing on extensive fieldwork with refugees in Turkey, Dr. Fulya Pinar shows how migrants navigate health care, work, and community life in ways that challenge conventional boundaries of inclusion and exclusion, offering a fresh lens on the future of citizenship. Her research reveals how everyday practices of survival and solidarity both unsettle and reshape the systems that seek to contain them.
Fulya Pinar is an anthropologist and writer whose research explores displacement, refugeehood, and solidarity and belonging in Turkey and the broader Middle East. She is an assistant professor of anthropology at Middlebury College. Her ethnographic work focuses on disenfranchised communities, including Syrian, Palestinian, and Iraqi refugees, as well as marginalized citizens, who navigate the cracks between state institutions, legal statuses, and global humanitarian aid.
Part of our fall 2025 lecture series, "The Future of Citizenship."