Congratulations to Dr. Helena Zeweri, who was recently awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her project Beyond Refuge: The Impact of Offshore Detention on Afghan Social and Political Life in Australia
This project is an ethnographic examination of the intimate effects of carceral border policies on diasporic social and political life. More specifically, the study examines how Afghans who found refuge in Australia were impacted by the offshore detention of their family members from 2012 to 2019 and the forms of political consciousness such experiences produced. Through participant observation, in-depth interviews, and analysis of policy documents and media coverage of Australia’s offshore detention policies, this study aims to understand the intimate effects of the structural violence of detention and the political projects and solidarities they inspire.
Insight Development Grants support research in its early stages and enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and ideas. Funding is available to both emerging scholars and established scholars for research initiatives of up to two years.
Dr. Zeweri’s project is one of 46 projects funded at UBC.
