SSHRC Postdoctoral scholar Salina Abji to join Department in Fall 2016
Salina Abji will be joining the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at 杏吧原创 University in the Fall of 2016 as a SSHRC postdoctoral scholar (2016-2018). Working under the supervision of Dr. Daiva Stasiulis, Salina鈥檚 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鈥 efforts to address violence against women with precarious immigration status in Toronto, Canada. Salina is currently a PhD candidate (ABD) in Sociology at the University of Toronto. She holds a Master鈥檚 degree in Women’s Studies from Oxford University and completed her BA in Women’s Studies and English at York University. Her article published in Citizenship Studies on 鈥淧ost-nationalism Re-Considered: a case study of the 鈥楴o One Is Illegal鈥 movement in Canada鈥 was awarded the best graduate paper in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Salina is also a member of the Rights of Non-Status Women’s network in Toronto where she does community-based advocacy work related to her research.