Occupation
Assistant Professor
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ABOUT
Rawan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California San Diego. Next year, Rawan will begin her appointment as an assistant professor at the University of Washington in the Law, Societies, and Justice department. Rawan’s research program begins with the refugee as a central figure of analysis. Refugee displacement is the manifestation of the breakdown of borders and citizenship rights while refugee status, as a legal construct, is delimited by the principle of sovereignty. Refugees’ lives and life chances are inextricably tied to national and global policies, which create or impede access to basic needs, education, rights, and mobility. Rawan’s research lies at the intersection of these issues and pushes forward debates about states, rights, and theories of international migration.
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Conflict Resolution
Arab Studies
Ethnography
Human Rights
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Jordan
Iraq
Lebanon
Syria
Turkey
Specialties
Refugee Studies, International Immigration, Political Sociology, Human Rights, Humanitarianism
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Spanish (elementary)
English (native)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| Sociology
| University of California San Diego
MA (Dubl.)
| 2010
| Women\'s and Gender Studies
| University of Texas, Austin
BA
| 2008
| Sociology
| University of Texas, San Antonio
Abstracts
Adversarial Allegiances: Appropriating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Northern Ireland
Placing the Refugee Burden: Refugees Immigration Policy in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon
Shouldering the Refugee Burden: Jordanian Sovereignty and the Global Refugee Crisis
Who Controls the Refugee Story?: How Restrictionist Immigration Polices Drive the Global Refugee Narrative
Negotiating Authority: Jordan and the International Response to Syrian Displacement
Illiberal Sanctuary
