Emine Fidan Elcioglu

Emine Fidan Elcioglu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She received a B.A. in economics and history from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. At the University of Toronto, she teaches courses on critical migration studies, race and ethnicity, and qualitative research methods.

Her research examines immigration politics as a window into broader dynamics of inequality, domination, and resistance. She is the author of Divided by the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S.–Mexico Border (University of California Press, 2020), an ethnographic study of why ordinary Americans mobilize around immigration politics even when they doubt their actions will bring change. Most recently, she has also published on the appeal of conservative politics among the children of immigrants, the entanglement of environmentalism and restrictionism, the relationship between guns and nativist movements, and the political consequences of Canada’s private refugee sponsorship system.