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The Secret Life of Waste: Recycling Dreams of Migration

This essay opens up a new perspective on migration through the lens of
 waste, tracing the effects of war, border securitization, and global capitalism
 on a local scale. The analysis of Afganistanbul (2018), a short documentary
 produced by a team at Kadir Has University in Istanbul where the book in
 hand originated, captures the predicament of undocumented waste workers
 in the city who lack the means to continue their journey to Europe or return
 to their homeland, while resources and revenue in the global recycling
 business circulate freely. Following the film in its close-up on a specific site of
 life and labour, this essay teases out competing aspirations among local and
 migrant city dwellers, arguing that representations of migrant experiences
 are prone to the temptation of poverty porn and calling on spectators to
 consider their own implication in interlocking systems of inequity.