Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi
Biographic Data
| ID | 249850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lara-Zuzan |
| FAMILY NAME | Golesorkhi |
| SIGNATURE | GOLESORKHI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5043-821X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning Before Doing: Community-Based Learning as Research Methods Learning
Instructors must balance advancing student knowledge and fostering civic abilities as dual objectives of political science education. Combining these objectives has informed various approaches in course design that often follow the idea of learning by doing, with a strong emphasis on the doing. This article presents a pedagogical frame—“community-based learning as research methods learning”—that focuses on the learning side of learning by doing a…
Gender Apartheid and Asylum: Establishing General Risks of Gender-Based Persecution in International Refugee Law
Does the situation in Afghanistan amount to persecution due to the accumulation of repressive measures enacted against women and is it sufficient that women are affected by such measures merely on the basis of their gender? While these two questions remain in front of the Court of Justice of the EU, several EU member states have moved to grant asylum to women and girls from Afghanistan on general risks of gender-based persecution. This dynamism i…
Regional Refugee Response Plans and Violence Against Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Humanitarian Situations in Ukraine and Venezuela
Regional Refugee Response Plans (RRPs) have emerged as key protection frameworks in the context of displacement. In line with the UNHCR Refugee Coordination Model (RCM), RRPs involve multi-partner and multi-sector response strategies for priority areas established based on region-specific needs. Across RRPs, violence against women (VAW) constitutes a priority area within operational and funding structures on gender-based violence (GBV). The opera…
Health Literacy and Refugee Women During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Outlooks for ESL Classes
During the COVID-19 pandemic, refugee women in the United States faced significant challenges to sustain their livelihoods, such as losing jobs and health care, becoming essential workers, and finding oneself again in unprecedented situations of limited mobility. These impacts reflect dynamics in migrant health literacy including language proficiency (skills-based approaches) as well as experiences, identities, and power relations in society (soc…
Frieda Wunderlich: Feminist research and activism in Berlin
In this article, we map the idiosyncratic social research career of Frieda Wunderlich during her years in Berlin (1884-1963). We recover elements of Wunderlich's unique deployment of social data and her analyses that are emblematic of contributions she made and that have been previously overlooked. We highlight Wunderlich as she lived and worked alongside other women in Berlin who shaped discourse and practice on social protections during a uniqu…
Centering community in Covid-19 responses: Refugee women's livelihoods in a global pandemic
Purpose The purpose of this commentary is to share preliminary findings from our ethnographic research on refugee women's livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portland, Oregon (USA), and to highlight the significance of community efforts in providing gender-responsive measures that address the specific needs and challenges of refugee women. Design/methodology/approach This commentary draws on a mixed-method approach, including ethnographic…
Protection by whom, for whom? Muslim refugee women facing a contested European identity
The protection of the ‘European way of life’ has come at the expense of protecting the human rights of migrants. This trade‐off has occurred at border crossings and in host countries, and has left third‐country nationals, including Muslim refugee women, in grey areas of protection. How can we explain these limited protections across the EU? I argue that the limited protections of Muslim refugee women can be explained through a combination of the …
Islamic Garb in Public Employment in Europe and the US—From Integration to Accommodation to Anti-Discrimination
According to a recent report by the Open Society Foundation (2018), one third of EU countries have national or local “bans” on Islamic garb. The report identified five common justifications for these restrictions: the imperative to provide security and counter terrorism, the drive for equality between men and women, the desire for homogeneity, the need for integration and assimilation, as well as the pursuit of neutrality and secularity. I argue …
Recovering Frieda Wunderlich: Gender, Knowledge, and Exile
Recovering Frieda Wunderlich:Gender, Knowledge, and Exile Ellen Freeberg (bio), Gina Luria Walker (bio), and Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi (bio) INTRODUCTION Our research on Frieda Wunderlich is part of ongoing contemporary efforts to recover women of earlier periods as producers of knowledge. Traditional intellectual history fails to place women into active dialogue with men or to see them as full partners in knowledge production (Beard [1946] 1987; Bea…
Graduate Students and Scholars Funded
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Unveiling Structural Challenges: The Headscarf and Employment Integration in Germany
Unveiled or Unemployed”—that is the verdict for many women with Muslim migration background in the German employment sector. Since the infamous “headscarf case” of Fereshta Ludin, who was denied a teaching position at a public school in the state of Baden-Württemberg due to her wearing the headscarf in 1998, institutional actions by the legislature and the judiciary on religiously affiliated clothing, such as the headscarf, have framed debates on…
Gender Apartheid and Asylum: Establishing General Risks of Gender-Based Persecution in International Refugee Law
Does the situation in Afghanistan amount to persecution due to the accumulation of repressive measures enacted against women and is it sufficient that women are affected by such measures merely on the basis of their gender? While these two questions remain in front of the Court of Justice of the EU, several EU member states have moved to grant asylum to women and girls from Afghanistan on general risks of gender-based persecution. This dynamism i…
Unveiling Structural Challenges: The Headscarf and Employment Integration in Germany
Unveiled or Unemployed”—that is the verdict for many women with Muslim migration background in the German employment sector. Since the infamous “headscarf case” of Fereshta Ludin, who was denied a teaching position at a public school in the state of Baden-Württemberg due to her wearing the headscarf in 1998, institutional actions by the legislature and the judiciary on religiously affiliated clothing, such as the headscarf, have framed debates on…
Regional Refugee Response Plans and Violence Against Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Humanitarian Situations in Ukraine and Venezuela
Regional Refugee Response Plans (RRPs) have emerged as key protection frameworks in the context of displacement. In line with the UNHCR Refugee Coordination Model (RCM), RRPs involve multi-partner and multi-sector response strategies for priority areas established based on region-specific needs. Across RRPs, violence against women (VAW) constitutes a priority area within operational and funding structures on gender-based violence (GBV). The opera…
Health Literacy and Refugee Women During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Outlooks for ESL Classes
During the COVID-19 pandemic, refugee women in the United States faced significant challenges to sustain their livelihoods, such as losing jobs and health care, becoming essential workers, and finding oneself again in unprecedented situations of limited mobility. These impacts reflect dynamics in migrant health literacy including language proficiency (skills-based approaches) as well as experiences, identities, and power relations in society (soc…
Centering community in Covid-19 responses: Refugee women's livelihoods in a global pandemic
Purpose The purpose of this commentary is to share preliminary findings from our ethnographic research on refugee women's livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portland, Oregon (USA), and to highlight the significance of community efforts in providing gender-responsive measures that address the specific needs and challenges of refugee women. Design/methodology/approach This commentary draws on a mixed-method approach, including ethnographic…
Islamic Garb in Public Employment in Europe and the US—From Integration to Accommodation to Anti-Discrimination
According to a recent report by the Open Society Foundation (2018), one third of EU countries have national or local “bans” on Islamic garb. The report identified five common justifications for these restrictions: the imperative to provide security and counter terrorism, the drive for equality between men and women, the desire for homogeneity, the need for integration and assimilation, as well as the pursuit of neutrality and secularity. I argue …
Recovering Frieda Wunderlich: Gender, Knowledge, and Exile
Recovering Frieda Wunderlich:Gender, Knowledge, and Exile Ellen Freeberg (bio), Gina Luria Walker (bio), and Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi (bio) INTRODUCTION Our research on Frieda Wunderlich is part of ongoing contemporary efforts to recover women of earlier periods as producers of knowledge. Traditional intellectual history fails to place women into active dialogue with men or to see them as full partners in knowledge production (Beard [1946] 1987; Bea…
Graduate Students and Scholars Funded
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Unveiling Structural Challenges: The Headscarf and Employment Integration in Germany
Unveiled or Unemployed”—that is the verdict for many women with Muslim migration background in the German employment sector. Since the infamous “headscarf case” of Fereshta Ludin, who was denied a teaching position at a public school in the state of Baden-Württemberg due to her wearing the headscarf in 1998, institutional actions by the legislature and the judiciary on religiously affiliated clothing, such as the headscarf, have framed debates on…
Islamic Garb in Public Employment in Europe and the US—From Integration to Accommodation to Anti-Discrimination
According to a recent report by the Open Society Foundation (2018), one third of EU countries have national or local “bans” on Islamic garb. The report identified five common justifications for these restrictions: the imperative to provide security and counter terrorism, the drive for equality between men and women, the desire for homogeneity, the need for integration and assimilation, as well as the pursuit of neutrality and secularity. I argue …
Protection by whom, for whom? Muslim refugee women facing a contested European identity
The protection of the ‘European way of life’ has come at the expense of protecting the human rights of migrants. This trade‐off has occurred at border crossings and in host countries, and has left third‐country nationals, including Muslim refugee women, in grey areas of protection. How can we explain these limited protections across the EU? I argue that the limited protections of Muslim refugee women can be explained through a combination of the …
Centering community in Covid-19 responses: Refugee women's livelihoods in a global pandemic
Purpose The purpose of this commentary is to share preliminary findings from our ethnographic research on refugee women's livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portland, Oregon (USA), and to highlight the significance of community efforts in providing gender-responsive measures that address the specific needs and challenges of refugee women. Design/methodology/approach This commentary draws on a mixed-method approach, including ethnographic…
Health Literacy and Refugee Women During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Outlooks for ESL Classes
During the COVID-19 pandemic, refugee women in the United States faced significant challenges to sustain their livelihoods, such as losing jobs and health care, becoming essential workers, and finding oneself again in unprecedented situations of limited mobility. These impacts reflect dynamics in migrant health literacy including language proficiency (skills-based approaches) as well as experiences, identities, and power relations in society (soc…
Frieda Wunderlich: Feminist research and activism in Berlin
In this article, we map the idiosyncratic social research career of Frieda Wunderlich during her years in Berlin (1884-1963). We recover elements of Wunderlich's unique deployment of social data and her analyses that are emblematic of contributions she made and that have been previously overlooked. We highlight Wunderlich as she lived and worked alongside other women in Berlin who shaped discourse and practice on social protections during a uniqu…
Regional Refugee Response Plans and Violence Against Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Humanitarian Situations in Ukraine and Venezuela
Regional Refugee Response Plans (RRPs) have emerged as key protection frameworks in the context of displacement. In line with the UNHCR Refugee Coordination Model (RCM), RRPs involve multi-partner and multi-sector response strategies for priority areas established based on region-specific needs. Across RRPs, violence against women (VAW) constitutes a priority area within operational and funding structures on gender-based violence (GBV). The opera…
Gender Apartheid and Asylum: Establishing General Risks of Gender-Based Persecution in International Refugee Law
Does the situation in Afghanistan amount to persecution due to the accumulation of repressive measures enacted against women and is it sufficient that women are affected by such measures merely on the basis of their gender? While these two questions remain in front of the Court of Justice of the EU, several EU member states have moved to grant asylum to women and girls from Afghanistan on general risks of gender-based persecution. This dynamism i…
Learning Before Doing: Community-Based Learning as Research Methods Learning
Instructors must balance advancing student knowledge and fostering civic abilities as dual objectives of political science education. Combining these objectives has informed various approaches in course design that often follow the idea of learning by doing, with a strong emphasis on the doing. This article presents a pedagogical frame—“community-based learning as research methods learning”—that focuses on the learning side of learning by doing a…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works)