18 March 2025, Tuesday

15.00

Istanbul Bilgi University

santralistanbul Campus, Energy Museum Seminar Room & Online

African Migration to Turkey: Fieldwork, Urban Evolution, Subjectivities

Prof. Mahir Şaul

Biographical note

After graduating from Boğaziçi University, Prof. Mahir Şaul received his doctorate from Indiana University on social anthropology in 1982. Until 2022, Prof. Şaul was a faculty member of the Department of Anthropology at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Prof. Şaul carried out most of his anthropological research in West Africa, starting with his long period research in Burkina Faso. He also spent extended periods for archival research on the colonial period in Paris, Abidjan, White Father missionary archives in Rome, and in Ouagadougou. Since 2010, Mahir Şaul’s research has focused on international African migration to the countries of the Mediterranean basin and of Asia, within the framework of South-South migration. He spent several year-long periods of fieldwork in Istanbul on West and Central African migration to Turkey. From 2020 on, he directed a project supported by the Outstanding International Scholars Program of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, hosted by Kadir Has University. He continues to publish on his earlier West African research and on African cinema, as well as on his current international migration project, including among others his recent book in Turkish entitled “Afrika’dan Türkiye’ye Göç ve Göç Teorileri”.

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