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Anita Häusermann Fábos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in International Development and Social Change
Phone: (508) 793-7201
Email: afabos@clarku.edu |
Education
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Boston University, 1999
M.A. in Arab Studies, Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1988
B.A. in Political Science and Music (magna cum laude), University of Pennsylvania, 1985
Research Interests
ethnicity and race, gender, urban refugees, Sudanese immigrants and refugees, Middle Eastern immigration and naturalisation policies, transnationalism and citizenship, transnational Islam, narratives of exile, Hungarian refugees
Biography
Anita Fábos is an anthropologist who has conducted research on issues of ethnicity and race, gender, refugees in urban settings, immigration and naturalization policy, Arab nationalism, and Islam. Fábos comes to IDCE from the University of East London, where she served as Programme Leader for the M.A. programme in Refugee Studies. Formerly the Director of the Program in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies and assistant professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo, Fábos lived and worked in Cairo for ten years, researching issues of gender, displacement, citizenship and identity. She has conducted ethnographic research among Muslim Arab Sudanese forced migrants in Egypt, analyzing their gendered discourse of propriety and morality as expressed in ethnic terms.
Fábos has also conducted research on Middle Eastern immigration and refugee policies; livelihoods of urban refugees in Cairo, and discourses of ‘race’ and racism as these pertain to refugees in Egypt and the U.K. Her current ethnographic research investigates the transnational strategies of women and men in the Sudanese diaspora, particularly in the context of global Islam. Fábos is also working on a multimedia interactive project exploring narratives of home, belonging and exile for a Hungarian refugee and his family.
Selected Publications
2008 ‘Resisting “Blackness”: Muslim Arab Sudanese in the Diaspora’. ISIM Review, Number 20, Winter 2008.
2008 ‘Brothers’ or Others? Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt’. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books. 160 pages. ISBN 1-84545-018-3.
2007 Between Citizenship and Belonging: Transnational Ethnic Strategies of Arab Muslim Sudanese in the Diaspora. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning/Women, Gender & Research, Special Issue on Gender and Transnationalism in the Middle East. Nr. 3, 2007.
2007 Refugees in Urban Settings of the Global South (Co-edited with Gaim Kibreab) Special Issue of Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees. 24(1).
2007 Editorial Introduction (with Gaim Kibreab) in Fábos, A. and Kibreab, G. (Eds) Refugees in Urban Settings of the Global South. Special Issue of Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees. 24(1): 1-19.
2005 (2001) “Marriage, Sudanese-Style: Transnational practices of citizenship and gender-making for Sudanese nationals in Egypt.” Northeast African Studies, (New Series) 8(3): 277-301. ISSN 0740-9133
2002 “Ambiguous Voices: Sudanese Immigrant and Exile Narratives in Egypt.” In Mary Ann Fay (ed). Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp 177-188. ISBN: 0312219660
2002 “Sudanese Identity in Diaspora and the Meaning of Home: The transformative role of Sudanese NGOs in Cairo.” In Nadje Al-Ali and Khalid Koser (eds). New Approaches to Migration? Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home. London and New York: Routledge. Pp 34-50. ISBN 0415254329
2001 “Embodying Transition: FGC, Displacement, and Gender-making for Sudanese in Cairo”. Feminist Review. (Summer 2001) No. 69: 90-110. ISSN 0141-7789
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