Ayşe Parla

In this episode, our guest was Ayşe Parla, and we had a very interesting conversation with her about her new book Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey published by Stanford University Press in 2019. We discussed how migrants from Bulgaria inhabit a liminal position between desirable migrants defined as racial kin and economically precarious subjects, whose belonging to the Turkish nation is constantly renegotiated. Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. Her research and writing on transnational migration, hope, precarious labor, dispossession and the governance of difference is situated at the intersections of the politico-legal and the affective-moral realms in Turkey, its borderlands and diasporas. Her first book, Precarious Hope, explored the limits of belonging in Turkey from the perspective of Turkish migrants from Bulgaria who are ethnically privileged but economically precarious, and for whom citizenship is promised even if not guaranteed. Stanford University Press provided a 20% discount for the listeners of the Keyman Podcast if you purchase the book directly form their website. Follow this link and enter the Promo Code PARLA20 at the checkout to purchase the book with a 20% discount. For more on Ayşe Parla’s work: https://www.bu.edu/anthrop/people/faculty/ayse-parla/ https://bu.academia.edu/AyseParla