Can E. Mutlu
Security, Technology, Mobility
I am an Associate Professor of Global Politics at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. I teach courses on Global Politics and international Security, as well as courses on the International Relations of the Middle East, European politics, borders, and migration, and postcolonial theory. I research issues related to everyday security, science and technology, and borders and migration.
Current Research Projects
Architecture of Security
Migrant Agricultural Workers in Annapolis Valley, NS, during COVID-19
The Atlantic Bubble and the Everyday Bordering during COVID-19
Digital Identities and the Border: Biographic, Biometric, Binary
This book-length manuscript project studies the digitalization of border security through “smart border” initiatives. Bringing together science and technology studies, and critical security studies to look at how an alignment of standardized electronic passports, visas, databases, automatic border crossing (ABC) machines, allow for further securitization of migration, and sorting of populations between risky and desirable groups.
Coming to Canada: Canadian Visa Regime and its Discontents
While the politics of irregular migration, asylum-seekers, and refugee sponsorship gets significant attention in the literature, the politics of the regular 90-day travel visas, student and work visas, to come to Canada through regular channels gets very little attention. This project looks at the everyday politics of Canadian travel visa and its structural and bureaucratic inconsistencies, problems, and shortcomings.
