Seminar Series on contemporary migration jointly organized by GAR and IFEA Migration and Mobility Study Group (aMIMO) is going on.
Seminar Series on contemporary migration jointly organized by GAR and IFEA Migration and Mobility Study Group (aMIMO) is going on. In the second seminar of 2019-2020 program, Prof. Prem Kumar Rajaram of Central European University will give a presentation titled “The Production of Surplas Populations”. The seminar will be held in Cezayir Toplantı Salonu, İstanbul on November 27 between 18.30-20.30.
In the speech, Prof. Rajaram will discuss that the forced migrants are considered generally by scholarship and by policy-makers as ‘outside’ of the social and political processes that animate nation-states. Thus, racial hierarchies in states are not seen as relevant to forced migrants. This speech will focus on the common marginalisations of migrants and ‘domestic’ subaltern populations and the production of racialised surplus populations by contemporary neoliberal capitalism.
Prem Kumar Rajaram is Professor of Sociology & Social Anthropology and Head of the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) at Central European University. He received his Ph.D degree at London School of Economics in 2002. In his research, Prem Kumar Rajaram is particularly interested in questions of marginality and depoliticization. His research has focused on the government of asylum-seekers, particularly those in detention in Europe and Australia, and on colonial histories of state making and on the inter-relations between colonialism, contemporary migration and capitalism. 
