Özgün Topak

Özgün Topak is a PhD candidate in sociology and a member of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Canada.

Surveillance, migrant deaths and humanitarianism in the Mediterranean

Smugglers are not the cause of migration; they are the consequences of the EU’s expanding border surveillance regime. The EU should concentrate on saving migrants from this regime.

By Özgün Topak

/ 28 Apr 2015

No limits to brutality: deaths at the Greece-Turkey borders

People who fetch up at the borders between Greece and Turkey are treated as if they were less than human, in unaccountable operations for which the European Union must take responsibility.

By Özgün Topak

/ 19 May 2014