{"id":2025,"date":"2017-02-10T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:54:31","slug":"salina-abji-sshrc-post-doctoral-fellow-at-carleton-receives-the-2016-dennis-william-magill-canada-research-award-for-best-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2017\/salina-abji-sshrc-post-doctoral-fellow-at-carleton-receives-the-2016-dennis-william-magill-canada-research-award-for-best-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"Salina Abji , SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Carleton, Receives the 2016 Dennis William Magill Canada Research Award for Best Dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Salina Abji , SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Carleton, Receives the 2016 Dennis William Magill Canada Research Award for Best Dissertation\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Salina-Abji.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Salina-Abji.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/Salina-Abji-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Salina Abji, whose dissertation was recently awarded the Department\u2019s 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. Salina defended her dissertation, entitled <i><strong>Emerging Logics of Citizenship: Activism in Response to Precarious Migration and Gendered Violence in an Era of Securitization<\/strong>,<\/i> in the fall of 2016. Her dissertation investigated changing understandings of citizenship among activists in Toronto, Canada, in response to deportation and removal of \u2018undocumented\u2019 migrants from schools and women\u2019s shelters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salina is currently a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca\/funding-financement\/programs-programmes\/fellowships\/postdoctoral-postdoctorale-eng.aspx\">SSHRC post-doctoral<\/a> 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 <span id=\"ctl01_lblChildLinks\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their assessment of Dr Abji\u2019s dissertation, members of the awards committee (Professors Robert Brym, Phil Goodman, John Hannigan, Ann Mullen and Jack Veugelers) wrote as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We consider Dr. Abji&#8217;s work a clearly written and thoroughly researched reassessment of postnationalist theory &#8211; the idea that a growing number of people are coming to think of themselves and others as members of a global community enjoying rights that extend to all of humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It accomplishes this task by demonstrating that Canadian immigration activists and federal employees increasingly used postnational human rights ideas to inform their actions during the years of the Harper government. Activists did so as they blocked immigration authorities from entering schools, women&#8217;s shelters and other institutions to investigate and deport non-status migrants. Some state employees followed suit by reacting negatively to securitization measures and questioning the legitimacy of citizenship rights as narrowly defined by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In short, Dr. Abji&#8217;s ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews and discourse analysis show that postnationalism provides both theoretical leverage and activist guidance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Salina Abji, whose dissertation was recently awarded the Department\u2019s 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. Salina defended her dissertation, entitled Emerging Logics of Citizenship: Activism in Response to Precarious Migration and Gendered Violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}