Fatmanur Delioglu
Visiting Fellow
Fatmanur Delioglu is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Her research spans migration governance, critical border studies, surveillance, and resistance, with a specific focus on how technology shapes migrant experiences. Currently, she serves as a Research Assistant at the Global Adversity and Wellbeing Research Group and as a PhD Support Officer for both the Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Cluster and the Migration + Technology Hub at BSIA.
Fatmanur holds an MA in Political Science and International Relations from Marmara University (with honors), where her thesis explored Syrian refugee women’s solidarity networks through kitchens. She earned her BA from Yıldız Technical University, focusing on the experiences of Syrian women in daily life in Istanbul.
Fatmanur's research examines how migrants navigate and resist the EU's externalized border regimes along the Balkan route, focusing on the dynamic interplay between surveillance technologies, humanitarian infrastructures, and grassroots solidarity networks. During her fellowship at the Refugee Studies Centre she will write a substantive chapter of her dissertation. This chapter will engage with the concept of borderscapes — understood as socially and politically produced spatial formations — and examine the multiple, overlapping forms of surveillance operating along the Balkan route.
Personal website: https://www.fatmanurdelioglu.com