 Congratulations to Areej Alshammiry, the 2023 recipient of the 2023 Albert CW Chan Foundation Award. A doctoral student in Sociology, Areej is a Vanier Scholar whose research explores state violence and statelessness. She is also a community-based researcher at the Centre for Community Based Research and a member of the Interim Core Group (ICG) of the nascent Global Movement Against Statelessness. |
| This award was established by the Albert C.W. Chan Foundation in order to encourage and assist graduate students to carry out field research in East and/or Southeast Asia. Areej will use the support that the award provides for a pre-field work exploratory project that will inform her dissertation. She will travel in Malaysia in February 2024, where she will be participating in the 2024 World Conference on Statelessness Agenda as a presenter, observer and moderator. She will be documenting the discussions in and reflections about the conference as well as meet with peers with whom she will engage with in her dissertation fieldwork. The experience will also assist her in designing my dissertation framework and scope. In her research, Areej is looking at how stateless activists and communities around the world organize and mobilize internationally through transnational movement building to address their local experiences of statelessness and state violence. She is specifically addressing the theoretical and methodological tensions within the statelessness field regarding how local and global advocacy which remain tied to legal paradigms, limiting their impact in contexts with complex socio-political dynamics. She is also interested in anti/de-colonial epistemologies and how they inform social movements around the world, and their encounters with state and international regimes, particularly indigenous/nomadic paradigms. Areej’s work is informed by social justice and community-oriented goals and action. She has years of experience working as an interdisciplinary researcher and a grassroots activist, and much of her thinking is informed by the interconnections between scholarship and activism. Applications for the 2024 Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Award are being accepted until 05 February 2024 More information on eligibility or to apply is available at this link. |
