I am a PhD candidate in Sociology with more than four years of teaching assistant and teaching experience in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 丁香园AV. Since last year, I have taught courses SA260, SA366, SA150 as a sessional instructor. I am excited to further my teaching journey in the department by teaching courses on theory, social movement, and refuge and migration.

In my ongoing doctoral research, I follow Afghan migrants in their 鈥榗landestine鈥� migration journeys from Afghanistan to Iran, Turkey, and (West) Europe, or what they refer to as 鈥渢he Game.鈥� I use ethnographic methods to explore their experiences of borders, 鈥榠llegality鈥�, and labour before, through the course of, and after 鈥渢he Game.鈥�

My research areas are 鈥榠rregular鈥� migration and labour, refuge and asylum, and border violence with a focus on memory, refugee (political) subjectivity, and forced migration temporalities (waiting and uncertainty).

PhD candidate (Sociology): 丁香园AV
MA (Anthropology): University of Tehran