Faruk Çam is a sociologist, jurist and Lecturer at Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Türkiye. He received his PhD in Sociology from Middle East Technical University in 2026 with a dissertation on the political ecology of dispossession and the desiccation of Lake Marmara. His research connects political ecology and critical migration studies, focusing on state power, dispossession, refugee protection and transnational families. He co-led Working Group 3 on social rights and social protection in COST Action CA21143 (TraFaDy) and is a member of two further COST Actions on rural resilience and cascading climate impacts.