Main research areas:
- Migration, diaspora and transnationality
- Anthropology of the Future
Current research:
My research revolves around questions of subjectivity, belonging, and community among diasporic Iraqis in Sweden. Employing the future as an analytical lens, the project explores how futural orientations and affects like hope, anticipation, and anxiety, are entangled with spatial affective attachments to (places in) Iraq and the imagination of transnational Iraqi communities. Based on life story interviews, participant observation and digital ethnography, my research takes the 2019 October uprising in Iraq as the point of departure, unpacking the affective dimensions of how the uprising was experienced by Iraqis in Sweden.
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.