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Noora Lori,<\/a>\u00a0Assistant Professor of International Relations at the\u00a0<\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an article in Volume 52, Issue 4 of the International Journal of Middle East Studies<\/em><\/a> exploring the difficult\u00a0question of\u00a0citizenship boundaries in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/span><\/p>\n In the article, titled “Time and its Miscounting: Methodological Challenges in the Study of Citizenship Boundaries<\/a>,” Lori argues that empirical claims about and individual\u2019s \u00a0\u201cnational\u201d or \u201cethnic\u201d origin are entirely dependent upon how we count – and miscount – time. This piece this piece reflects on Lori’s empirical research on citizenship in the UAE to explain why, in addition to being spatial, we should understand citizenship boundaries as temporal ones as well as why counting of time is critical to making legal, moral, and political claims to citizenship.<\/p>\n This article is part of a broader research agenda that moves beyond spatial and territorial understandings of border control and boundary policing, to bring attention to how states strategically use time to police national boundaries.<\/p>\n The full article can be read on the International Journal of Middle East Studies<\/em>‘ website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Noora Lori\u2019s<\/a> research broadly focuses on the political economy of migration, the development of security institutions and international migration control, and the establishment and growth of national identity systems. She is particularly interested in the study of temporary worker programs and racial hierarchies in comparative perspective. Regionally, her work examines the shifting population movements accompanying state formation in the Persian Gulf, expanding the study of Middle East politics to include historic and new connections with East Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Lori is the Founding Director of the Pardee School Initiative on Forced Migration and Human Trafficking. Read more about Professor Lori on her faculty profile<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “In addition to being spatial, we should understand citizenship boundaries as temporal ones.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":47202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8432],"tags":[11784,11604,9754,8602,9418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47191"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47222,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47191\/revisions\/47222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}