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Dina Taha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Doha, Qatar and an affiliated scholar with the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada where she received her PhD degree in Sociology in 2022. Her research focuses on the sociology of migration, family, marriage and gender. Her theoretical and pedagogical approaches are informed by community-based and decolonial practices. Prior to joining DI, Dina was the senior researcher at the Centre for Community-Based Research located in the University of Waterloo campus, where she has provided invaluable insights on numerous regional and national projects, spanning from food security to digital equity among racialized minorities, refugees and newcomers.<\/p>\n

Taha is the Lead Principal Investigator on a three-year Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)-funded project titled Fertility, Faith, and Family: Tracing Fertility Preservation Trends, Experiences, and Challenges in Qatar. She also leads a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant in collaboration with Nisa Homes, pioneering a culturally and religiously tailored shelter system for minority women in Canada. Her scholarship has been featured in leading academic journals, including the British Journal of Sociology and Ethnic and Migration Studies. Dina is a member of Association of Middle Easter Women’s Studies (AMEWS), the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS) and the International Sociological Association (ISA).<\/p>\n

Publications<\/h3>\n

Tuesday, February 8, 2022<\/p>

LERRN-RRN Workshop | Creative Methods in Challenging Times<\/h3>

...eir lives before and after displacement in Colombia. Dina Taha spoke about her chapter that looks at the traditional methodology of qualitative interviews through the lenses of decolonization and critical reflexivity. She urged us to ask if research questions are rooted in stereotypical conceptions or... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, April 15, 2020<\/p>

Dina Taha’s doctoral work examining the diversity of refugee experiences, and involvement with LERRN<\/h3>

Dina Taha’s work has taken her from Egypt to Canada and back again on a journey of research and discovery about the lives and survival strategies of Syrian refugee women. During her doctoral work, she returned to Egypt and conducted an intensive series of interviews with Syrian refugee women who... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, December 17, 2019<\/p>

Intersectionality and Other Critical Approaches in Refugee Research: An Annotated Bibliography<\/h3>

Working Paper 3 Dina Taha, PhD Candidate, York University Executive Summary This literature review highlights migration and refugee research engaged with intersectionality as a critical framework that challenges homogenizing experiences and categories in the global refugee context. Intersectionality seeks to enable the analysis of multiple... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div><\/div>

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