H Zeweri
Biographic Data
| ID | 44822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Zeweri |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Zeweri |
| SIGNATURE | ZEWERI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3410-0830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Imperial narratives and the cultural turn
Between Care and Criminality
Between Care and Criminality examines social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital prac…
Disciplining subjectivity in Australian migrant deterrence campaigns
This article examines public information campaigns designed to deter asylum seekers from entering Australia via boat. Through analysing the institutional context and content of a graphic novel that was circulated within Afghan Hazara communities in 2014, I show that certain Australian public information campaigns mobilize an ethos of cultural sensitivity rooted in ethnographic data-gathering projects that reinscribe migrants as ignorant and socia…
Reluctant Disclosure
In this article, I examine the ways in which secondary school administrators, nurses, and teachers in Victoria, Australia, are being taught to identify forced marriage as an emerging configuration of familial violence that has been codified in federal law. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Melbourne, Australia and its suburbs, I argue that school staff's discomfort with the policy's demand that they conduct risk assessments on their…
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru, by Julia Caroline Morris, is a detailed analysis of asylum processing in Nauru—a small island republic 2,046 miles northeast of the northern tip of Queensland, Australia, which has yet to be the subject of sustained ethnographic and historical research. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork and archival analysis in Nauru, Australia, and Geneva from 2014 to 2016, Morris offers an unprecedented…
The Women’s Mosque of America
Outside the wire
This article investigates two registers of dehumanization in the Brereton Report. It begins with the dehumanization of Afghan civilians that is reflected in the Brereton Report, which alleges that SOTG personnel adopted a liberal interpretation of the rules of engagement to justify using lethal force against Afghan civilians. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Sara Ahmed, we draw attention to the gendered and racialized assumptions that con…
Between Imperial Rule and Sovereignty
This review examines the analytical interventions of three new books on Afghanistan released in 2020. Each book uniquely traces the ways in which knowledge around Afghanistan has been intimately tied with imperial geopolitical agendas. Through employing discursive analysis, media content analysis, critical readings of the archive, and sustained ethnographic methods, these three books collectively constitute an important turning point in the study…
Centring migrant community voices in forced marriage prevention social policy
In this article, we examine how young adult Muslim Australian women from immigrant families are navigating familial pressures around marriage, and what this can teach the forced marriage prevention sector about the importance of privileging community voices in its educational approach. Through an ethnographic approach that focuses on two women's recent experiences with social and cultural expectations around marriage, we argue that their strategi…
Cultivated intuition
In this paper, we explore Mexican and Central American migrants’ decisions to refuse public benefits in response to the Trump administration’s proposed change in the enforceability priorities of the “public charge” section of the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Based on interviews with migrants who have experienced undocumented status and who are now in the process of becoming lawful permanent residents, we argue that decisions to pre-emptive…
Australia's Values-Based Asylum Activism
The specter of failure
This article analyzes how the category of “Afghan women” and discourses of precarity intersect within the women’s empowerment regime in Afghanistan. By examining an NGO that seeks to empower women through writing, I argue that staff members draw upon precarity as a go-to logic to describe the state of Afghan women writers’ successes under conditions of insecurity and limited communication. Specifically, it is writers’ desires to subvert their soc…
Cultivated intuition
In this paper, we explore Mexican and Central American migrants’ decisions to refuse public benefits in response to the Trump administration’s proposed change in the enforceability priorities of the “public charge” section of the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Based on interviews with migrants who have experienced undocumented status and who are now in the process of becoming lawful permanent residents, we argue that decisions to pre-emptive…
The specter of failure
This article analyzes how the category of “Afghan women” and discourses of precarity intersect within the women’s empowerment regime in Afghanistan. By examining an NGO that seeks to empower women through writing, I argue that staff members draw upon precarity as a go-to logic to describe the state of Afghan women writers’ successes under conditions of insecurity and limited communication. Specifically, it is writers’ desires to subvert their soc…
Reluctant Disclosure
In this article, I examine the ways in which secondary school administrators, nurses, and teachers in Victoria, Australia, are being taught to identify forced marriage as an emerging configuration of familial violence that has been codified in federal law. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Melbourne, Australia and its suburbs, I argue that school staff's discomfort with the policy's demand that they conduct risk assessments on their…
Outside the wire
This article investigates two registers of dehumanization in the Brereton Report. It begins with the dehumanization of Afghan civilians that is reflected in the Brereton Report, which alleges that SOTG personnel adopted a liberal interpretation of the rules of engagement to justify using lethal force against Afghan civilians. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Sara Ahmed, we draw attention to the gendered and racialized assumptions that con…
Disciplining subjectivity in Australian migrant deterrence campaigns
This article examines public information campaigns designed to deter asylum seekers from entering Australia via boat. Through analysing the institutional context and content of a graphic novel that was circulated within Afghan Hazara communities in 2014, I show that certain Australian public information campaigns mobilize an ethos of cultural sensitivity rooted in ethnographic data-gathering projects that reinscribe migrants as ignorant and socia…
Centring migrant community voices in forced marriage prevention social policy
In this article, we examine how young adult Muslim Australian women from immigrant families are navigating familial pressures around marriage, and what this can teach the forced marriage prevention sector about the importance of privileging community voices in its educational approach. Through an ethnographic approach that focuses on two women's recent experiences with social and cultural expectations around marriage, we argue that their strategi…
The specter of failure
This article analyzes how the category of “Afghan women” and discourses of precarity intersect within the women’s empowerment regime in Afghanistan. By examining an NGO that seeks to empower women through writing, I argue that staff members draw upon precarity as a go-to logic to describe the state of Afghan women writers’ successes under conditions of insecurity and limited communication. Specifically, it is writers’ desires to subvert their soc…
Australia's Values-Based Asylum Activism
Centring migrant community voices in forced marriage prevention social policy
In this article, we examine how young adult Muslim Australian women from immigrant families are navigating familial pressures around marriage, and what this can teach the forced marriage prevention sector about the importance of privileging community voices in its educational approach. Through an ethnographic approach that focuses on two women's recent experiences with social and cultural expectations around marriage, we argue that their strategi…
Cultivated intuition
In this paper, we explore Mexican and Central American migrants’ decisions to refuse public benefits in response to the Trump administration’s proposed change in the enforceability priorities of the “public charge” section of the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Based on interviews with migrants who have experienced undocumented status and who are now in the process of becoming lawful permanent residents, we argue that decisions to pre-emptive…
Between Imperial Rule and Sovereignty
This review examines the analytical interventions of three new books on Afghanistan released in 2020. Each book uniquely traces the ways in which knowledge around Afghanistan has been intimately tied with imperial geopolitical agendas. Through employing discursive analysis, media content analysis, critical readings of the archive, and sustained ethnographic methods, these three books collectively constitute an important turning point in the study…
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru, by Julia Caroline Morris, is a detailed analysis of asylum processing in Nauru—a small island republic 2,046 miles northeast of the northern tip of Queensland, Australia, which has yet to be the subject of sustained ethnographic and historical research. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork and archival analysis in Nauru, Australia, and Geneva from 2014 to 2016, Morris offers an unprecedented…
The Women’s Mosque of America
Outside the wire
This article investigates two registers of dehumanization in the Brereton Report. It begins with the dehumanization of Afghan civilians that is reflected in the Brereton Report, which alleges that SOTG personnel adopted a liberal interpretation of the rules of engagement to justify using lethal force against Afghan civilians. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler and Sara Ahmed, we draw attention to the gendered and racialized assumptions that con…
Between Care and Criminality
Between Care and Criminality examines social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital prac…
Disciplining subjectivity in Australian migrant deterrence campaigns
This article examines public information campaigns designed to deter asylum seekers from entering Australia via boat. Through analysing the institutional context and content of a graphic novel that was circulated within Afghan Hazara communities in 2014, I show that certain Australian public information campaigns mobilize an ethos of cultural sensitivity rooted in ethnographic data-gathering projects that reinscribe migrants as ignorant and socia…
Reluctant Disclosure
In this article, I examine the ways in which secondary school administrators, nurses, and teachers in Victoria, Australia, are being taught to identify forced marriage as an emerging configuration of familial violence that has been codified in federal law. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Melbourne, Australia and its suburbs, I argue that school staff's discomfort with the policy's demand that they conduct risk assessments on their…
Imperial narratives and the cultural turn
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works)