Salina Abji
Post-Doctoral Fellow
| Degrees: | M.A. Women's Studies (Oxford University), Ph.D. Sociology (University of Toronto) |
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Salina is currently a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow at Carleton University, where she is conducting research on immigration detention practices in Canada, and the role of activists in negotiating, contesting, and reproducing state power over borders and citizenship.
Working under the supervision of Dr. Daiva Stasiulis, Salina’s research will study social activism in response to immigration detention practices in Canada, focusing on the role of advocates in negotiating, contesting, and reproducing state power over borders and citizenship. The project builds on her doctoral dissertation, which studied activists’ efforts to address violence against women with precarious immigration status in Toronto, Canada.
Salina’s dissertation, entitled Emerging Logics of Citizenship: Activism in Response to Precarious Migration and Gendered Violence in an Era of Securitization, was awarded the Department’s 2016 Dennis William Magill Canada Research Award for best dissertation or published paper on Canadian society by a PhD student (Sociology) at the University of Toronto.