Dr. Zaheera Jinnah

Biography

Zaheera Jinnah is an Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria's School of Social Work. She specializes in interdisciplinary scholarship informed by decolonial and global south intersectional theories and practices, having spent a decade teaching at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She has also been a research associate at the University of Alberta in the European Masters in Migration and Intercultural Relations program. Her work is centered on migration studies, particularly in Africa, and she has emerging research in Islamophobia. Jinnah offers supervision to students and teaches courses including Research in Social Change and Human Development within a Social Work context. Her research has led to several publications, including books and peer-reviewed journal articles that discuss various facets of migration, governance, and socio-economic rights. Her scholarship has garnered several awards, including the Mitacs Canada Science Policy Fellowship, and she has been involved in various funded projects regarding migration, family dynamics, and socio-economic challenges in Southern Africa.

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