Dr Kevin Yildirim

Kevin is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on migration, citizenship, work and labour, moral life under capitalism, and the anthropology of Turkey and the Middle East. After earning undergraduate and master’s degrees at Concordia University and Istanbul Technical University, he completed an MPhil at Girton College and a PhD at Darwin College, both at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research (2023) was based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey’s informal recycling sector and examined how the arrival of migrant workers altered citizens’ ideas about economic and political justice. He is currently completing his first monograph on nativism and migrant labour in Turkey.