Alev Çakır

Alev Çakır

Ph.D. Student

  • Asian American Studies

Alev Çakır is an academic researcher with a background in Political Science and interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Studies. She is a visiting scholar and doctoral student from the University of Vienna in the UC Davis' Department of Asian American Studies under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Robyn Rodriguez. She earned her Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Vienna and her Master of Arts in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation from the University of Innsbruck.

 

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Governing Ethnicized and Economized 'Migrant Subjects': 'Migrant Entrepreneurs' from Turkey in Vienna
Alev Çakır will give an overview of her doctoral work that analyzes the governing of 'migrant entrepreneurship', taking the example of türkiyeli (coming from Turkey) entrepreneurs, in Austria by both, policies and 'migrant entrepreneurs' themselves. She investigates issues on neoliberal economization and ethnicization of the 'migrant subject' by discussing the role of intersectional power relations and the political embeddedness of these processes.