I am a PhD candidate and Term Lecturer in Sociology at SFU. In my ongoing doctoral research, I follow Afghan migrants in their ‘clandestine’ migration journeys from Afghanistan to Iran, Turkey, and (West) Europe, or what these migrants refer to as “the Game.” I use ethnographic methods to explore their experiences of borders, ‘illegality’, and labour before, through the course of, and after “the Game.”  My research areas are ‘irregular’ 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): 91��ܽ
MA (Anthropology): University of Tehran