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About<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. I study state-controlled refugee and migration regimes (particularly in Canada), affective and everyday life of revolutions (particularly in relation to Iran), and race, repression and subalternity (particularly in relation to Palestine).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My multi-method, genealogical research on Canadian refugee protection (published by UBC Press in 2023) was shortlisted by the Canadian Law and Society Association for the W. Wesley Pue Book Prize. Some of the findings of my SSHRC IDG-funded research on language interpretation services for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) refugees in Canada are available in a public brochure here<\/strong><\/a>. This project has also led to the creation of an open access culturally attuned training for refugee language interpreters who work with sexual and gender diverse clients, accessible here<\/strong><\/a>. You may visit my online Oral History archive on everyday memories of the 1979 Iranian revolution (created with Ronak Ghorbani and funded by a Carleton University-SSHRC Knowledge Mobilization Exchange Grant) at www.enghelabshod.ca<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have two ongoing research projects. First, I am studying why young people engage in political action under conditions that offer little hope for meaningful change. In this study I theorize the affective politics of youth-engaged social movements by considering the question of hope and hopelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, I am investigating the medium and long-term effects of prolonged non-citizenship on Iranian nationals who apply to the Mahsa Amini policy to extent their temporary residence in Canada. This longitudinal study traces and documents the human costs of chronic non-citizenship.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am currently accepting graduate students interested in the fields of critical migration and refugee studies, political sociology, and socio-legal studies, and welcoming inquiries about specific areas of supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chanie, Bantayehu, Christina Clark-Kazak, Azar Masoumi, Delphine Nakache, and Allan Reesor-McDowell. 2025. \u201cFilling the gaps in housing for refugee claimants: The role of non-governmental organizations across Canada.\u201d\u00a0Canadian Diversity\/Diversit\u00e9 Canadienne\u00a0<\/em>21 (1): 21-24.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2024. \u201c\u2018You Didn\u2019t Have to Pay Me\u2019: The Meanings of Monetary Incentives in Interview Research.\u201d International Journal of Qualitative Methods.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2024. \u201cThe Revolving Door of Im\/migration: Canadian Refugee Protection and the Production of Migrant Workers.\u201d Social and Legal Studies <\/em>33 (4): 582-600.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2023. \u201c\u2018Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here\u2019: The Paradox of Protection in Canada.\u201d Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar and Ronak Ghorbani. 2023. \u201cSpatial Histories: Geography, Memory, and Alternative Narratives of the Iranian Revolution of 1979.\u201d International Public History<\/em> 6 (1): 31\u201341.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2022. \u201cFast Refugee Protection: Temporality and Migration Control.\u201d Social & Legal Studies 31 (2): 197\u2013215.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2021. \u201cContagious Terror: Violence, Haunting and the Work of Refugee Protection.\u201d Studies in Social Justice 15<\/em> (3): 475-496.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2020. \u201c\u2018Some Nice Latin American Music Will Be Played by a Tape Player\u2019: Anti-Racist Critique and the Multicultural State.\u201d Social identities 26<\/em> (5): 705\u2013718.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2020. \u201cThe Battle of Numbers: Refugee Protection, Race, and Neoliberal Politics of Bureaucratic Efficiency.\u201d O\u00f1ati Socio-Legal Series 10<\/em> (6): 1084-1106. Published online 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2019. \u201cThe Politics of \u201cDoing Exactly Nothing\u201d: Feminist Legal Change and Bureaucratic Administration of Refugee Protection.\u201d Feminist Legal Studies 27<\/em> (3), 243-261.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2019. \u201c\u2018Come Out and Be Free!\u2019: Coming Out and the (International) Government of Sexualities.\u201d In Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times<\/em>, edited by Deborah Brock. University of British Columbia Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2018. \u201cCompulsory Coming Out and Agentic Negotiations: Toronto QTPOC Narratives.\u201d In Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto<\/em>, edited by Jin Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, and Syrus Marcus Ware. University of Toronto Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masoumi, Azar. 2016. \u201c(Stop) Deporting Pegah: Sovereignty, (Public) Sex, and (Life)\/Death.\u201d Social Justice 43<\/em> (4), 22-43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22245,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Azar","cu_people_last_name":"Masoumi","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[39],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-12178","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-sociology-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. Sociology (York University)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"azar.masoumi@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2596","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/12178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/12178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33577,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/12178\/revisions\/33577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=12178"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=12178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}