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Fulya Pınar

Fulya Pınar is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College.

Website https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/fulya-pinar X.com
Deportation as Punishment and the Everyday War on Migrants from Turkey to the United States
A woman crosses into Syria from Turkey through the Kassab crossing on December 27, 2024. Aaref Watad/AFP via Getty ImagesMembers of the MIT Graduate Student Union demonstrate outside the John F. Kennedy Federal Building on April 1, 2025 to demand the Trump administration cease attacks on the 1st Amendment and immediately release union members, including Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk. Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
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Deportation as Punishment and the Everyday War on Migrants from Turkey to the United States

At dawn on December 9, 2024, hundreds of Syrian refugees gathered at Turkey's Cilvegözü and Öncüpınar border crossings into northern Syria to return home following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's government. Wrapped in blankets and clutching their children and possessions, they waited in anticipation, some having
Fulya Pınar • 13 min read