Rassa Ghaffari
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rassa Ghaffari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rassa |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghaffari |
| SIGNATURE | GHAFFARI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Genoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8195-7645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To See and be Seen
The Evros/Meriç region constitutes a critical site in the articulation of hegemonic narratives of "extra-legal normality", deeply embedded in the nation-building processes of Greece and Turkey. Historically a zone of fluid cross-border interaction, this borderland—once unified under Ottoman rule—has been reconfigured since the 2000s by increasingly securitized migration governance, shaped in part by EU externalization policies. The Evros border h…
The Digital Infrastructures of Illegal Border Crossings
This article explores overlooked strategies and self-determination practices among Iranian, Afghans and Moroccan citizens planning irregular migration to Europe. While the migration studies literature often focuses on state use of digital technology for border surveillance, its role in facilitating unauthorized crossings is emerging. Through digital ethnography on Arabic- and Persian-speaking virtual platforms where people discuss European border…
Indigenous Solidarities and Contemptuous Ethnographic Fieldworks
I am a different father’. An intergenerational analysis of the social transformation of fatherhood in the Islamic Republic of Iran
This paper was inspired by Michael Rush’s works on the social construction of fatherhood in non-European contexts. It aims to fill a knowledge gap in gender, family and Iranian studies by exploring both the changing role of fathers and men’s involvement in family life and care in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Adopting an intergenerational approach and a mixed methods design, the paper considers how fatherhood practices and discourses have changed…
Doing Gender Research as a 'Gendered Subject
This contribution is based on the difficulties, challenges and stimuli faced during the months of field research conducted in Tehran for my PhD dissertation on transformations of gender roles in Iran. Therefore, it means to rethink the three main issues I faced during my ethnography in in a context characterized by peculiar social and cultural dynamics: the difficulties and advantages related to my condition of a woman who works on a topic full o…
Doing Gender Research as a 'Gendered Subject
This contribution is based on the difficulties, challenges and stimuli faced during the months of field research conducted in Tehran for my PhD dissertation on transformations of gender roles in Iran. Therefore, it means to rethink the three main issues I faced during my ethnography in in a context characterized by peculiar social and cultural dynamics: the difficulties and advantages related to my condition of a woman who works on a topic full o…
I am a different father’. An intergenerational analysis of the social transformation of fatherhood in the Islamic Republic of Iran
This paper was inspired by Michael Rush’s works on the social construction of fatherhood in non-European contexts. It aims to fill a knowledge gap in gender, family and Iranian studies by exploring both the changing role of fathers and men’s involvement in family life and care in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Adopting an intergenerational approach and a mixed methods design, the paper considers how fatherhood practices and discourses have changed…
To See and be Seen
The Evros/Meriç region constitutes a critical site in the articulation of hegemonic narratives of "extra-legal normality", deeply embedded in the nation-building processes of Greece and Turkey. Historically a zone of fluid cross-border interaction, this borderland—once unified under Ottoman rule—has been reconfigured since the 2000s by increasingly securitized migration governance, shaped in part by EU externalization policies. The Evros border h…
The Digital Infrastructures of Illegal Border Crossings
This article explores overlooked strategies and self-determination practices among Iranian, Afghans and Moroccan citizens planning irregular migration to Europe. While the migration studies literature often focuses on state use of digital technology for border surveillance, its role in facilitating unauthorized crossings is emerging. Through digital ethnography on Arabic- and Persian-speaking virtual platforms where people discuss European border…
Indigenous Solidarities and Contemptuous Ethnographic Fieldworks
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works)