Event Highlights: Refuge—How the State Shapes Human Potential
This talk by Heba Gowayed, Moorman-Simon Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University, took place at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. The subject of conversation was Prof. Gowayed’s just published book, Refuge (Princeton University Press, 2022), exploring how states shape the potential of people pursuing refuge within their borders.
Prof. Gowayed’s research, which is global and comparative, examines how low-income people traverse social services, immigration laws, and their associated bureaucracies, while grappling with gender and racial inequalities. Her writing has appeared in Gender & Society, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Sociological Forum and in public outlets including Slate and Teen Vogue. She is currently working on her second book, The Cost of Borders, which theorizes borders as a costly, and often deadly, transactions.