Emine Fidan Elcioglu
Biographic Data
| ID | 106256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emine Fidan Elcioglu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emine Fidan |
| FAMILY NAME | Elcioglu |
| SIGNATURE | ELCIOGLU E F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5161-8298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Seeding the divide: John Tanton, the Sierra Club and the struggle over US environmentalism
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the Sierra Club, one of the most prominent environmental organisations in the United States, faced a polarising internal battle over whether to endorse immigration restrictions. Two dominant explanations have emerged to account for why immigration became such a flashpoint in an environmental organisation. One, advanced by watchdog groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, cast the controversy as a far-r…
Red Pills, Blue Books: Youth Political Consciousness and the Epistemic Struggle Between YouTube and the University
What happens when YouTube and the university offer competing visions of political reality? Drawing on 25 interviews, this article explores how young people navigate political meaning in the age of digital capitalism. While conservative influencers on YouTube offer emotionally charged, algorithmically amplified narratives of 'common sense', social science classrooms provide tools for critique and structural analysis. But access to the latter is in…
Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America
To make a nation on stolen land using enslaved labor, the early American state relied on gun and immigration policy to create a well-armed white settler population. This legacy continues to animate modern conservativism, which is staked on supporting gun-friendly and anti-immigrant policies. Despite this history and ongoing political reality, however, the sociology of migration has largely ignored the relationship between firearms and immigration…
I began to think more like a Canadian: How second-generation south Asian and Chinese Canadians confront racism by becoming conservative voters
Global Labor Migration: New Directions
Brokering immigrant transnationalism: Remittances, family reunification, and private refugee sponsorship in neoliberal Canada
Using the case study of Canada's private refugee sponsorship program, we show how neoliberalization heightens the power of non-immigrant civilians to broker immigrants' transnationalism. Private sponsors respond differently to two common and interrelated forms of refugee transnationalism in which they are structurally empowered to intervene. They encourage family reunification while discouraging remittances, although the former often depends on t…
Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas
Neoliberal Fatigue: The Effects of Private Refugee Sponsorship on Canadians' Political Consciousness
Private sponsorship has become a primary way that refugees access resettlement to Canada. Key in this program are the private Canadians who volunteer their money, time, and labor to sponsor and support refugees. Drawing on 25 interviews, this article examines the insights that these privileged citizens of the global north gain as they help refugees struggling with the marginalizing consequences of neoliberal austerity in their new hostland. While…
Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
The State Effect: Theorizing Immigration Politics in Arizona
How do perceptions of the state shape social movements’ strategies? Drawing on 16 months of participant observation and 70 interviews with activists in Arizona, this article illustrates how the politics of immigration plays out at the grassroots level as a struggle between expanding and restricting the state. Pro-immigrant activists in this study contended that the problem of undocumented migration resulted from the state’s unchecked coercive pow…
Popular sovereignty on the border: Nativist activism among two border watch groups in southern Arizona
By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with two grassroots groups that operate near the Arizona-Mexico border, this article illuminates how nativism is translated into day-to-day activism, often in ways that, while openly critical of the state, actually serve to strengthen the state. In contrast to conventional accounts that characterize nativist groups on the border as 'vigilante', I argue that the two groups which are the focus of this study, the…
Producing Precarity: The Temporary Staffing Agency in the Labor Market
On the basis of fieldwork in a temporary staffing agency (TSA), I argue that while temp agencies may provide transitional mobility for jobseekers, in the long run the TSA systematically exploits and reproduces structural vulnerability in the labor market. The agency creates a core of permanent temporary workers separate from the periphery of surplus workers, such that the former is given priority in job allocation. The staffing agency can use all…
Producing Precarity: The Temporary Staffing Agency in the Labor Market
On the basis of fieldwork in a temporary staffing agency (TSA), I argue that while temp agencies may provide transitional mobility for jobseekers, in the long run the TSA systematically exploits and reproduces structural vulnerability in the labor market. The agency creates a core of permanent temporary workers separate from the periphery of surplus workers, such that the former is given priority in job allocation. The staffing agency can use all…
Neoliberal Fatigue: The Effects of Private Refugee Sponsorship on Canadians' Political Consciousness
Private sponsorship has become a primary way that refugees access resettlement to Canada. Key in this program are the private Canadians who volunteer their money, time, and labor to sponsor and support refugees. Drawing on 25 interviews, this article examines the insights that these privileged citizens of the global north gain as they help refugees struggling with the marginalizing consequences of neoliberal austerity in their new hostland. While…
The State Effect: Theorizing Immigration Politics in Arizona
How do perceptions of the state shape social movements’ strategies? Drawing on 16 months of participant observation and 70 interviews with activists in Arizona, this article illustrates how the politics of immigration plays out at the grassroots level as a struggle between expanding and restricting the state. Pro-immigrant activists in this study contended that the problem of undocumented migration resulted from the state’s unchecked coercive pow…
I began to think more like a Canadian: How second-generation south Asian and Chinese Canadians confront racism by becoming conservative voters
Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas
Popular sovereignty on the border: Nativist activism among two border watch groups in southern Arizona
By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with two grassroots groups that operate near the Arizona-Mexico border, this article illuminates how nativism is translated into day-to-day activism, often in ways that, while openly critical of the state, actually serve to strengthen the state. In contrast to conventional accounts that characterize nativist groups on the border as 'vigilante', I argue that the two groups which are the focus of this study, the…
Brokering immigrant transnationalism: Remittances, family reunification, and private refugee sponsorship in neoliberal Canada
Using the case study of Canada's private refugee sponsorship program, we show how neoliberalization heightens the power of non-immigrant civilians to broker immigrants' transnationalism. Private sponsors respond differently to two common and interrelated forms of refugee transnationalism in which they are structurally empowered to intervene. They encourage family reunification while discouraging remittances, although the former often depends on t…
Seeding the divide: John Tanton, the Sierra Club and the struggle over US environmentalism
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the Sierra Club, one of the most prominent environmental organisations in the United States, faced a polarising internal battle over whether to endorse immigration restrictions. Two dominant explanations have emerged to account for why immigration became such a flashpoint in an environmental organisation. One, advanced by watchdog groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, cast the controversy as a far-r…
Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America
To make a nation on stolen land using enslaved labor, the early American state relied on gun and immigration policy to create a well-armed white settler population. This legacy continues to animate modern conservativism, which is staked on supporting gun-friendly and anti-immigrant policies. Despite this history and ongoing political reality, however, the sociology of migration has largely ignored the relationship between firearms and immigration…
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
Producing Precarity: The Temporary Staffing Agency in the Labor Market
On the basis of fieldwork in a temporary staffing agency (TSA), I argue that while temp agencies may provide transitional mobility for jobseekers, in the long run the TSA systematically exploits and reproduces structural vulnerability in the labor market. The agency creates a core of permanent temporary workers separate from the periphery of surplus workers, such that the former is given priority in job allocation. The staffing agency can use all…
Popular sovereignty on the border: Nativist activism among two border watch groups in southern Arizona
By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with two grassroots groups that operate near the Arizona-Mexico border, this article illuminates how nativism is translated into day-to-day activism, often in ways that, while openly critical of the state, actually serve to strengthen the state. In contrast to conventional accounts that characterize nativist groups on the border as 'vigilante', I argue that the two groups which are the focus of this study, the…
The State Effect: Theorizing Immigration Politics in Arizona
How do perceptions of the state shape social movements’ strategies? Drawing on 16 months of participant observation and 70 interviews with activists in Arizona, this article illustrates how the politics of immigration plays out at the grassroots level as a struggle between expanding and restricting the state. Pro-immigrant activists in this study contended that the problem of undocumented migration resulted from the state’s unchecked coercive pow…
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas
Neoliberal Fatigue: The Effects of Private Refugee Sponsorship on Canadians' Political Consciousness
Private sponsorship has become a primary way that refugees access resettlement to Canada. Key in this program are the private Canadians who volunteer their money, time, and labor to sponsor and support refugees. Drawing on 25 interviews, this article examines the insights that these privileged citizens of the global north gain as they help refugees struggling with the marginalizing consequences of neoliberal austerity in their new hostland. While…
Global Labor Migration: New Directions
Brokering immigrant transnationalism: Remittances, family reunification, and private refugee sponsorship in neoliberal Canada
Using the case study of Canada's private refugee sponsorship program, we show how neoliberalization heightens the power of non-immigrant civilians to broker immigrants' transnationalism. Private sponsors respond differently to two common and interrelated forms of refugee transnationalism in which they are structurally empowered to intervene. They encourage family reunification while discouraging remittances, although the former often depends on t…
Seeding the divide: John Tanton, the Sierra Club and the struggle over US environmentalism
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the Sierra Club, one of the most prominent environmental organisations in the United States, faced a polarising internal battle over whether to endorse immigration restrictions. Two dominant explanations have emerged to account for why immigration became such a flashpoint in an environmental organisation. One, advanced by watchdog groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, cast the controversy as a far-r…
Red Pills, Blue Books: Youth Political Consciousness and the Epistemic Struggle Between YouTube and the University
What happens when YouTube and the university offer competing visions of political reality? Drawing on 25 interviews, this article explores how young people navigate political meaning in the age of digital capitalism. While conservative influencers on YouTube offer emotionally charged, algorithmically amplified narratives of 'common sense', social science classrooms provide tools for critique and structural analysis. But access to the latter is in…
Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America
To make a nation on stolen land using enslaved labor, the early American state relied on gun and immigration policy to create a well-armed white settler population. This legacy continues to animate modern conservativism, which is staked on supporting gun-friendly and anti-immigrant policies. Despite this history and ongoing political reality, however, the sociology of migration has largely ignored the relationship between firearms and immigration…
I began to think more like a Canadian: How second-generation south Asian and Chinese Canadians confront racism by becoming conservative voters
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Economics (3 works)