Author: Deniz Daser

Deniz Daser is an anthropologist who studies migration, labor, and citizenship under conditions of insecurity. She is a visiting research associate at Rutgers University, where she completed her Ph.D. in anthropology in 2018. Her dissertation, “Leveraging Labor in New Orleans: Worklife and Insecurity among Honduran Migrants,” is based on 18 months of ethnographic field research and archival study in post-Katrina New Orleans. Follow her on Twitter @dddaser.

Deniz Daser

Larissa’s Story: Behind the Migration Crisis Headlines

November, 2019 / By Deniz Daser

In late September, 2019, the current US presidential administration struck several unprecedented deals with the Northern Triangle governments of Honduras, […]

My Parents’ Material (and Immaterial) Labor: Notes on Duty, Love, and Privilege in Fieldwork

February, 2015 / By Deniz Daser

Anxieties of Arrival Like many accounts of ethnographic fieldwork, this one begins with an arrival story. When I arrived for