Main research areas:
- Migration
- Diaspora and transnationality
- Anthropology of the Future
- Affect theory
Current research:
My dissertation explores how Syrians in Denmark experience the time after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, focusing on how affective orientations towards the future, such as hope, concern and anticipation are entangled with diasporic subjectivities and practices. Against the backdrop of a political climate characterized by recurrent calls for refugee return and "remigration," I also examine what it means to imagine, inhabit and work towards a multitude of simultaneous futures, as you navigate and/or resist the futures imagined for you by the political and legal system. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork among Syrians in Copenhagen and Aarhus over the course of one year after the fall of the regime, and includes narrative interviews, participant observation and digital ethnography.
In a previous project I have examined transnational hope and hopelessness among Iraqis in Denmark and Sweden, based on narratives surrounding the 2019 October Uprising in Iraq as well as the toppling of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003.
Background
I have a Bachelor's in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen and a Master's in International Development Studies and Cultural Encounters from Roskilde University.