Baran (Abu) Fakhri

I am a PhD candidate in Sociology with more than four years of teaching assistant and teaching experience in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SFU. Since last year, I have taught courses SA260, SA366, SA150 as a sessional instructor. I am excited to further my teaching journey in the department by teaching courses on theory, social movement, and refuge and migration.

In my ongoing doctoral research, I follow Afghan migrants in their ‘clandestine’ migration journeys from Afghanistan to Iran, Turkey, and (West) Europe, or what they 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): Simon Fraser University
MA (Anthropology): University of Tehran