Deena Dajani
Biographic Data
| ID | 668587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deena Dajani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deena |
| FAMILY NAME | Dajani |
| SIGNATURE | DAJANI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Laser Scan Engineering (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1386-4217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Good Life in Exile
Suspension
This article focuses on suspension: a process and a politics in migration governance that disables subjects and destabilises the state. Drawing on migrant, civic actor and policy-maker insights and experiences in the cities of Athens, Berlin and London, the discussion reveals how suspension is operationalised and enacted. As recorded across three cities, suspension has become a way to govern migration as an unequal and racialised system by obscur…
Refuge under austerity
This paper draws on two current UK refugee resettlement schemes, the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Community Sponsorship, to consider the ways in which they borrow technologies from austerity and innovate “border-work”. On the global level, the paper considers how VPRS outsources the UK’s border management to UNHCR. On the national level, the paper considers how Community Sponsorship shifts the responsibility for the support o…
Differentiated visibilities
This article focuses on the social media content of RT Arabic – formerly Russia Today – the Russian state-funded international news media organization. It presents results of a qualitative analysis of social media posts in order to assess whether and how RT Arabic constructs a strategic narrative of its involvement in the war in Syria. It also contributes to conceptualizations of how state-sponsored strategic narratives operate in practice and ca…
Media and Politics in a Globalizing World
Telling tales, performing justice
If Arabic drama and Greek theatre shared the same beginnings (both emerging from ceremonies of fertility), then why have the Greek traditions of theatre, tragedy and comedy been read as political but the Arabic traditions dismissed as ‘folkloric’? Consider three texts: an eighth century theatrical script called Mu ākkamat al- hulafā' (‘Trial of the Caliphs’), a thirteenth century shadow-play titled al-‘Ajīb wa al- harīb (‘The Bemusing and The Str…
Differentiated visibilities
This article focuses on the social media content of RT Arabic – formerly Russia Today – the Russian state-funded international news media organization. It presents results of a qualitative analysis of social media posts in order to assess whether and how RT Arabic constructs a strategic narrative of its involvement in the war in Syria. It also contributes to conceptualizations of how state-sponsored strategic narratives operate in practice and ca…
Suspension
This article focuses on suspension: a process and a politics in migration governance that disables subjects and destabilises the state. Drawing on migrant, civic actor and policy-maker insights and experiences in the cities of Athens, Berlin and London, the discussion reveals how suspension is operationalised and enacted. As recorded across three cities, suspension has become a way to govern migration as an unequal and racialised system by obscur…
Telling tales, performing justice
If Arabic drama and Greek theatre shared the same beginnings (both emerging from ceremonies of fertility), then why have the Greek traditions of theatre, tragedy and comedy been read as political but the Arabic traditions dismissed as ‘folkloric’? Consider three texts: an eighth century theatrical script called Mu ākkamat al- hulafā' (‘Trial of the Caliphs’), a thirteenth century shadow-play titled al-‘Ajīb wa al- harīb (‘The Bemusing and The Str…
Telling tales, performing justice
If Arabic drama and Greek theatre shared the same beginnings (both emerging from ceremonies of fertility), then why have the Greek traditions of theatre, tragedy and comedy been read as political but the Arabic traditions dismissed as ‘folkloric’? Consider three texts: an eighth century theatrical script called Mu ākkamat al- hulafā' (‘Trial of the Caliphs’), a thirteenth century shadow-play titled al-‘Ajīb wa al- harīb (‘The Bemusing and The Str…
Media and Politics in a Globalizing World
Differentiated visibilities
This article focuses on the social media content of RT Arabic – formerly Russia Today – the Russian state-funded international news media organization. It presents results of a qualitative analysis of social media posts in order to assess whether and how RT Arabic constructs a strategic narrative of its involvement in the war in Syria. It also contributes to conceptualizations of how state-sponsored strategic narratives operate in practice and ca…
Refuge under austerity
This paper draws on two current UK refugee resettlement schemes, the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Community Sponsorship, to consider the ways in which they borrow technologies from austerity and innovate “border-work”. On the global level, the paper considers how VPRS outsources the UK’s border management to UNHCR. On the national level, the paper considers how Community Sponsorship shifts the responsibility for the support o…
Suspension
This article focuses on suspension: a process and a politics in migration governance that disables subjects and destabilises the state. Drawing on migrant, civic actor and policy-maker insights and experiences in the cities of Athens, Berlin and London, the discussion reveals how suspension is operationalised and enacted. As recorded across three cities, suspension has become a way to govern migration as an unequal and racialised system by obscur…
A Good Life in Exile
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Refugee (2 works)