Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
GLOBALIZATIONS, sa.Early View, ss.1-22, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
This paper challenges the primacy of ‘freedom of movement’ in critical migration studies, proposing instead the ‘right to homeland’ as a more adequate political horizon for confronting contemporary forced displacement. The paper argues that refugeehood is defined not primarily by restricted mobility but by dispossession – the expropriation of people's collective capacity to shape the social conditions of the places where they live and labor. Situating this analysis within the organic crisis of global capitalism and the ensuing counter-revolution of property, the paper demonstrates how the assault on republican premises such as popular sovereignty and substantive citizenship has generalized the core aspects of refugeehood across broader populations. The right to homeland emerges as both an analytical framework and a strategic imperative: it invites to reappropriate citizenship and sovereignty from their hollowed-out forms, offering a unifying ground for struggle that transcends the citizen/refugee divide and addresses the shared dynamics of dispossession.