Shiva Nourpanah
Biographic Data
| ID | 165658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shiva Nourpanah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shiva |
| FAMILY NAME | Nourpanah |
| SIGNATURE | NOURPANAH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4644-577X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Revolution Will Be Feminized
The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is notorious for brutally suppressing women. Yet it has shown a surprising fondness for using images of strong women in crafting their ongoing narrative of nation
Voices of Experience: Development of the Flourishing Practice Model of Capabilities of Intimate Partner Violence Specialists
Imagined Transnational Communities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsShiva NourpanahShiva Nourpanah is a first-generation immigrant from Iran who made the beautiful province of Nova Scotia her home in 2008. She has been working for the Province of Nova Scotia since 2021. Prior to that, she worked for a community organization for three years in the field of violence against women. She also teaches part-time in the Department of Global Development Studies at Saint Mary's Un…
Whose Knowledge Is Under the Lens? A Contribution to the Debate Sparked by Clark and Walker's 2011 Research Ethics in Victimization Studies: Widening the Lens
The starting point for this commentary is the fruitful exchange of ideas on the ethics of victimization research, published in this journal in 2011, sparked by Clark and Walker's article, "Research Ethics in Victimization Studies: Widening the Lens". This article provoked a flurry of responses that, taken altogether, provide an illuminating cornerstone for the ethical debates and issues surrounding victimization research. It further inspired us t…
Moving, Waiting, Racing: The Emotional and Temporal Experience of Policy for Nurses on Temporary Work Permits in Canada
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork done between April 2015 and August 2016 in Halifax, Canada, with nurses employed on temporary work permits in the healthcare sector in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, this research contributes to contemporary literature on certain forms of migration temporality and emotionality. I employ policy analysis of credential recognition procedures for nurses and ethnographic research methods to demonstrate how a com…
Where the Normal is Crisis: Service Delivery to Underserved Populations during the Covid Pandemic
Women and children subject to violence. Refugees. The incarcerated and criminalized. The homeless. Ethnic and racialized minorities. When a global pandemic hits populations that are already vulnerable, racialized, marginalized, historically subject to oppression, and underserved, the civil society organizations mandated to serve them need all their ingenuity and resourcefulness to provide support while following public health guidelines. As the C…
The Construction of Gratitude in the workplace: Temporary foreign workers employed in health care
In capitalist societies, workers feel, or feel obliged to feel grateful for having a job. In a world marked by global inequality, migrants from the global South to the North are expected to feel gratitude for their opportunity to move to and live in a first world country. In the case of temporary foreign workers, both these sorts of gratitude come together. The political economy regime governing the conditions of work and cross‐border movement fo…
(Re)Producing Gender: Refugee Advocacy and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Narratives
The glaring absence of gender persecution as grounds for protection in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees , the cornerstone of international refugee law, continues to impact current refugee claims driven by fear of sexual and gender-based violence. Applying a transnational, feminist and intersectional perspective, our study presents qualitative research on this particular form of violence in refugee claims. The lack of a stron…
Maybe We Shouldn't Laugh So Loud: The Hostility and Welcome Experienced by Foreign Nurses on Temporary Work Permits in Nova Scotia, Canada
My research explores the labour conditions experienced by foreign nurses employed in health care in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, on temporary permits. I draw on ethnographic interviews to understand the nuanced ways in which foreign nurses feel welcomed in their local communities and workplaces, yet simultaneously remain subject to hostile racialized scrutiny. Nova Scotia is one of the least ethnically diverse provinces in Canada and one …
Healthcare workers 'on the move: Making Visible the Employment-Related Geographic Mobility of Healthcare Workers
Many healthcare workers are 'on the move' as part of their employment, travelling often great distances to such places as patients'/clients' homes and community clinics. Healthcare workers' experiences of this employment-related geographic mobility have been relatively invisible even though mobility is necessary for home and community care. Interviews with professional (e.g. nurses) and paraprofessional (e.g. personal care assistants) healthcare …
Drive-By Education: The Role of Vocational Courses in the Migration Projects of Foreign Nurses in Canada
The Relationship of Safety with Burnout for Mobile Health Employees
Employees' confidence in occupational safety while addressing work responsibilities on the road has implications for their experience of job burnout
Sound Health Starts from Education’: The social construction of obesity in Iranian public health discourse
This paper presents the results of a study exploring official public health discourse surrounding obesity in Iran. Data were obtained from the Iranian Government agency website responsible for public health. Our study contributes to the knowledge about the social construction of public health issues in general, and obesity in particular, in a developing country that subscribes to sociocultural norms and a political economy regime proclaimed to be…
A Study of the Experiences of Integration and Settlement of Afghan Government-Assisted Refugees in Halifax, Canada
This article presents a qualitative study of the experiences of a sample of Afghan refugees who have settled in Canada. Using Anthony Giddens’s concepts of structure and agency, the author analyzes interview data to explore how the respondents express their agency within the structural constraints of refugee life. In light of the research findings, it is argued that Afghan refugees form a diverse and heterogeneous population, in stark contrast to…
A Vanishing Act: Women's Human Rights in Aid and Development
Tracing the nexus of human rights for women and development, this article looks at women's human rights in Afghan societies, where development and aid run parallel to, if not conditional on, an imposed rights discourse. The author provides examples of how such dictated discourse becomes the subject of negotiation in the field, to the extent that women's human rights may ultimately vanish from the table. The article also considers various solution…
The Construction of Gratitude in the workplace: Temporary foreign workers employed in health care
In capitalist societies, workers feel, or feel obliged to feel grateful for having a job. In a world marked by global inequality, migrants from the global South to the North are expected to feel gratitude for their opportunity to move to and live in a first world country. In the case of temporary foreign workers, both these sorts of gratitude come together. The political economy regime governing the conditions of work and cross‐border movement fo…
Healthcare workers 'on the move: Making Visible the Employment-Related Geographic Mobility of Healthcare Workers
Many healthcare workers are 'on the move' as part of their employment, travelling often great distances to such places as patients'/clients' homes and community clinics. Healthcare workers' experiences of this employment-related geographic mobility have been relatively invisible even though mobility is necessary for home and community care. Interviews with professional (e.g. nurses) and paraprofessional (e.g. personal care assistants) healthcare …
A Study of the Experiences of Integration and Settlement of Afghan Government-Assisted Refugees in Halifax, Canada
This article presents a qualitative study of the experiences of a sample of Afghan refugees who have settled in Canada. Using Anthony Giddens’s concepts of structure and agency, the author analyzes interview data to explore how the respondents express their agency within the structural constraints of refugee life. In light of the research findings, it is argued that Afghan refugees form a diverse and heterogeneous population, in stark contrast to…
Voices of Experience: Development of the Flourishing Practice Model of Capabilities of Intimate Partner Violence Specialists
Moving, Waiting, Racing: The Emotional and Temporal Experience of Policy for Nurses on Temporary Work Permits in Canada
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork done between April 2015 and August 2016 in Halifax, Canada, with nurses employed on temporary work permits in the healthcare sector in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, this research contributes to contemporary literature on certain forms of migration temporality and emotionality. I employ policy analysis of credential recognition procedures for nurses and ethnographic research methods to demonstrate how a com…
Maybe We Shouldn't Laugh So Loud: The Hostility and Welcome Experienced by Foreign Nurses on Temporary Work Permits in Nova Scotia, Canada
My research explores the labour conditions experienced by foreign nurses employed in health care in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, on temporary permits. I draw on ethnographic interviews to understand the nuanced ways in which foreign nurses feel welcomed in their local communities and workplaces, yet simultaneously remain subject to hostile racialized scrutiny. Nova Scotia is one of the least ethnically diverse provinces in Canada and one …
Drive-By Education: The Role of Vocational Courses in the Migration Projects of Foreign Nurses in Canada
A Vanishing Act: Women's Human Rights in Aid and Development
Tracing the nexus of human rights for women and development, this article looks at women's human rights in Afghan societies, where development and aid run parallel to, if not conditional on, an imposed rights discourse. The author provides examples of how such dictated discourse becomes the subject of negotiation in the field, to the extent that women's human rights may ultimately vanish from the table. The article also considers various solution…
A Study of the Experiences of Integration and Settlement of Afghan Government-Assisted Refugees in Halifax, Canada
This article presents a qualitative study of the experiences of a sample of Afghan refugees who have settled in Canada. Using Anthony Giddens’s concepts of structure and agency, the author analyzes interview data to explore how the respondents express their agency within the structural constraints of refugee life. In light of the research findings, it is argued that Afghan refugees form a diverse and heterogeneous population, in stark contrast to…
Sound Health Starts from Education’: The social construction of obesity in Iranian public health discourse
This paper presents the results of a study exploring official public health discourse surrounding obesity in Iran. Data were obtained from the Iranian Government agency website responsible for public health. Our study contributes to the knowledge about the social construction of public health issues in general, and obesity in particular, in a developing country that subscribes to sociocultural norms and a political economy regime proclaimed to be…
The Relationship of Safety with Burnout for Mobile Health Employees
Employees' confidence in occupational safety while addressing work responsibilities on the road has implications for their experience of job burnout
(Re)Producing Gender: Refugee Advocacy and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Narratives
The glaring absence of gender persecution as grounds for protection in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees , the cornerstone of international refugee law, continues to impact current refugee claims driven by fear of sexual and gender-based violence. Applying a transnational, feminist and intersectional perspective, our study presents qualitative research on this particular form of violence in refugee claims. The lack of a stron…
Maybe We Shouldn't Laugh So Loud: The Hostility and Welcome Experienced by Foreign Nurses on Temporary Work Permits in Nova Scotia, Canada
My research explores the labour conditions experienced by foreign nurses employed in health care in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, on temporary permits. I draw on ethnographic interviews to understand the nuanced ways in which foreign nurses feel welcomed in their local communities and workplaces, yet simultaneously remain subject to hostile racialized scrutiny. Nova Scotia is one of the least ethnically diverse provinces in Canada and one …
Healthcare workers 'on the move: Making Visible the Employment-Related Geographic Mobility of Healthcare Workers
Many healthcare workers are 'on the move' as part of their employment, travelling often great distances to such places as patients'/clients' homes and community clinics. Healthcare workers' experiences of this employment-related geographic mobility have been relatively invisible even though mobility is necessary for home and community care. Interviews with professional (e.g. nurses) and paraprofessional (e.g. personal care assistants) healthcare …
Drive-By Education: The Role of Vocational Courses in the Migration Projects of Foreign Nurses in Canada
The Construction of Gratitude in the workplace: Temporary foreign workers employed in health care
In capitalist societies, workers feel, or feel obliged to feel grateful for having a job. In a world marked by global inequality, migrants from the global South to the North are expected to feel gratitude for their opportunity to move to and live in a first world country. In the case of temporary foreign workers, both these sorts of gratitude come together. The political economy regime governing the conditions of work and cross‐border movement fo…
Whose Knowledge Is Under the Lens? A Contribution to the Debate Sparked by Clark and Walker's 2011 Research Ethics in Victimization Studies: Widening the Lens
The starting point for this commentary is the fruitful exchange of ideas on the ethics of victimization research, published in this journal in 2011, sparked by Clark and Walker's article, "Research Ethics in Victimization Studies: Widening the Lens". This article provoked a flurry of responses that, taken altogether, provide an illuminating cornerstone for the ethical debates and issues surrounding victimization research. It further inspired us t…
Moving, Waiting, Racing: The Emotional and Temporal Experience of Policy for Nurses on Temporary Work Permits in Canada
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork done between April 2015 and August 2016 in Halifax, Canada, with nurses employed on temporary work permits in the healthcare sector in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, this research contributes to contemporary literature on certain forms of migration temporality and emotionality. I employ policy analysis of credential recognition procedures for nurses and ethnographic research methods to demonstrate how a com…
Where the Normal is Crisis: Service Delivery to Underserved Populations during the Covid Pandemic
Women and children subject to violence. Refugees. The incarcerated and criminalized. The homeless. Ethnic and racialized minorities. When a global pandemic hits populations that are already vulnerable, racialized, marginalized, historically subject to oppression, and underserved, the civil society organizations mandated to serve them need all their ingenuity and resourcefulness to provide support while following public health guidelines. As the C…
Imagined Transnational Communities
Additional informationNotes on contributorsShiva NourpanahShiva Nourpanah is a first-generation immigrant from Iran who made the beautiful province of Nova Scotia her home in 2008. She has been working for the Province of Nova Scotia since 2021. Prior to that, she worked for a community organization for three years in the field of violence against women. She also teaches part-time in the Department of Global Development Studies at Saint Mary's Un…
Voices of Experience: Development of the Flourishing Practice Model of Capabilities of Intimate Partner Violence Specialists
The Revolution Will Be Feminized
The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is notorious for brutally suppressing women. Yet it has shown a surprising fondness for using images of strong women in crafting their ongoing narrative of nation
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Criminology (4 works)