Anita Fabos
Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice
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Anita H. Fábos is an anthropologist who studies how people who experience displacement and forced migration think about and organize their mobile lives. She has lived, worked, and conducted research together with diasporic Sudanese Muslims and other forced migrants in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Her research spans ethnic, racial, and national projects of exclusion, translocal mobilities and network-building practiced by people on the move, and the new forms of social cohesion transforming our societies. Fábos is especially interested in cities both as places of displacement and sites for mobile livelihoods and is developing approaches to urban sustainability that recognize and incorporate multi-sited belonging.
As the convenor of the Integration and Belonging Hub at Clark University, Fábos incorporates insights from how people on the move craft belonging into her analysis of refugee and migrant integration policies and shows how settled communities can practice integration and belonging together with newcomers. In collaboration with Cathrine Brun, Fábos explores how people living with long-term displacement make home. Fábos and Brun's constellations of home framework challenges taken-for-granted ideas about refugees and home by revealing how the complex practices, values, and ideals of home in exile are often at odds with options supported by the international refugee system.
Fábos is devoted to teaching, research, and praxis that incorporates collaboration with people from refugee and forced migrant backgrounds. Students in her classes have carried out community-engaged projects that have investigated refugee participation in community development initiatives, refugee access to higher education, refugee livelihoods in Worcester, and experiences of belonging and home for people from refugee and non-refugee backgrounds. Her undergraduate and graduate teaching at Clark University includes courses on interdisciplinary methods, development theory, and forced migration policy. Fábos coordinates the SSJ Graduate Certificate in Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging, as well as Clark’s Scholars-at-Risk chapter.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, Boston University, 1999
- M.A. in Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1988
- B.A. in Political Science and Music, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
Affiliated Department(s)
- Sustainability and Social Justice
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Bridging and breaking silos: Transformational governance of the migration--sustainability nexus
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2024
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Vol. 121
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Issue #3
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Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices: Insights from new migrant populations in growing urban settlements
Global Environmental Change
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2024
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Vol. 84
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Chapter: Rethinking solutions in never-ending displacement: What are the alternatives?Published by Edward Elgar Publishing
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2023
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At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings
Qualitative Research
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2023
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3. Home and forced migration
Handbook on Home and Migration: 0
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2023
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COVID-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration: insights from diverse cities in four continents
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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2023
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Vol. 10
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The migration-sustainability paradox: transformations in mobile worlds
Current opinion in environmental sustainability
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2021
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Vol. 49
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Chapter: ELEVEN New Bad Girls of Sudan Women Singers in the Sudanese DiasporaPublished by University of Texas Press
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2021
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When Consensus Falters, We Co-create: Attending to Power in a Practitioner/Scholar Partnership to Amplify Newcomer Belonging
Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
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2021
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Vol. 14
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Moving stories: methodological challenges to mapping narratives and networks of people in diasporas
Journal of Refugee Studies
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2021
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Vol. 34
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Understanding stakeholder positionalities and relationships to reimagine asylum at the US–Mexico border: Observations from McAllen, TX
J. Human Geography
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2020
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Published by Routledge International
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2020
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Book Review: Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates (Routledge 2018)
Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees
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2019
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Vol. 35
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Re-centreing Refugee Studies: Thoughts on Barbara Harrell-Bond’s Refugee-centred Perspective
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2019
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Vol. 61
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The Lancet Planetary Health
November
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2019
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Vol. 3
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Awards & Grants
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Seeding an Integration and Belonging Hub: Connecting Clark to Migrant, Displaced, and Refugee Residents in Worcester and Beyond.
Clark University/Academic Innovation Funds
Jan. 11, 2022 - Dec. 20, 2022
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Belmont Forum/NSF
Feb. 27, 2019 - Feb. 27, 2021
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International Collaborative Research and Travel Award
Oxford Brookes University
Jun. 1, 2019 - Jun. 1, 2020
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David P. Angel Senior Faculty Award, Established by the Steinbrecher Family
Clark University
2023
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