Researcher in History, Lund University
I am a Researcher at the Swedish South Asian Studies Network at Lund University. I am working on a project that examines the history and sociology of Afghan refugees and asylum-seekers in the United States and Sweden since the Cold War. I am also a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley.
I have a published a monograph with Palgrave Macmillan. My articles have appeared in the journals Modern Intellectual History and History of Political Thought. A forthcoming article will be published in The Times Literary Supplement.
I am the Founding President of the UC Berkeley Humanities and Social Sciences Association.
I have taught at San Quentin Prison University Project, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, among others.
I have been a freelance writer and researcher for American immigration attorneys for over two years.
How Afghans became second-class asylum seekers
Feb 22, 2017 04:33 am UTC| Insights & Views
When it comes to being a refugee, your nationality really matters. Syrian asylum seekers are routinely prioritised over Afghan ones in what has become a deadly and dangerous hierarchy for Afghans seeking sanctuary in the...
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