- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Travel Writing and Literature
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Hispanic-African Historical Relations
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Cultural Identity and Heritage
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Science Education and Pedagogy
- Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- African Studies and Geopolitics
- Night-time city culture
Maastricht University
2015-2024
Florida State University
2022-2024
The Ohio State University
2024
Japan External Trade Organization
2015
Wageningen University & Research
2012-2015
Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales
2008
Université Libre de Bruxelles
2008
University College London
2006-2007
The University of Texas at Austin
2006
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
1997
Abstract Both K‐12 schools and STEM disciplines are embedded in White supremacy exclusion, making it that much harder for Black women to maintain an interest sense of belonging STEM. Through a Critical Race Feminism methodology, we tell the counterstories our two co‐authors, women, over course their lives. these (stories run counter normative stories as male White), Kelli Samantha show us how they negotiated maintained even through moments self‐doubt trajectory. These negotiations allowed...
Rather than treating diaspora as defined by certain criteria across the ages, we argue that further investigation of diasporic practices and orientations provide a meaningful analysis how individuals create maintain connections to an ancestral distant « homeland ». Based on two parallel methodologically complementary studies about vacation Moroccan- Algerian-origin second generation » in Europe towards their North African homelands », our combined data view into such become part enactment...
Les membres de diasporas qui se rendent en visite dans leur pays d'origine éprouvent souvent le sentiment paradoxal d'être « touristes propre ». Cet article explore ce paradoxe à travers la présentation données ethnographiques concernant des Européens marocaine génération poste-migrante passent leurs vacances d'été au Maroc. Ces personnes compte comme d'un retour chez eux », mais comportements et choix loisirs montrent que visites sont plus, autre chose, simples familiales. Cela permet...
AbstractMuslim women are often cited as subject to restriction in their mobility through public space, especially European contexts, comparison with non-Muslim community members. Yet any woman might face her access leisure outside the home geographies of risk and fear, well care responsibility. In this article, we describe ways which Moroccan Muslim resident Europe negotiate home, both Morocco, demonstrating that they practice mobilities framed by safety, responsibility combined individual...
Current and future Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine (STEMM) students must grapple with one of the most pressing scientific issues century: climate change. Teaching about change our youngest learners requires preparation, planting roots to foster growth, innovation, sustainability. Building a community garden elementary is way act towards justice as it reminds us how all living things are part an interconnected system. This article describes fifth-grade action project...
Abstract Visits to friends and relatives are often part of circulatory migration mobilities between resident ancestral homelands. These journeys characteristic the diasporic lives post‐migrant generations Moroccans from Europe, where close proximity relatively unimpeded mobility homelands have enabled a tradition vacationing at ‘home’. For many such individuals, this vacation visit involves repeatedly negotiating sense belonging in that homeland, as individuals who maintain strong...
Literature on diaspora engagement in development activities has centred the contributions of migrating adults to 'homeland', which range from private transfers single households, community projects. While such studies often focus impact country origin, relatively few have focused what transpires during encounters and how this affects migrants', especially young people's, motivation engage transnationally over time. This paper combines migration development, transnational second generation...
Like migrants from various southern sending countries, many Moroccan post-war guest worker in Belgium and the Netherlands invested part of their foreign earnings building a house Morocco. These houses were often earmarked for eventual retirement, but over course years return visits became familial vacation home place origin. Their cyclical presence enabled ongoing communion with family Morocco, while also exacerbating economic inequalities among members resulting migration. As post-migrant...
Louis H-G Lyautey’s legacy as colonial regent of Morocco and an innovator in French urban planning resonates through his transformation Rabat according to entirely new spatial logics modernity. While plans produced conditions for structural difficulty indigenous housing, they also enabled the preservation historic monuments spaces tourist consumption – that are now, post-Independence, considered part Moroccan national history. The grand vision Lyautey is many ways perpetuated contemporary...
While generations of Moroccan-origin Europeans have been a focus policymakers seeking to 'integrate' them in their countries dwelling, less attention has paid how visiting 'home' Morocco – perpetuating practice among Moroccan families living Europe contributes life course trajectories. The summertime influx from across the globe creates possibility encounter superdiverse community Moroccans-from-elsewhere when Morocco, many whom share experiences individual and collective 'integration' but...
Abstract Although many factors may motivate a migrant to own house in their country of origin, significant practical labour is needed maintain it, as both material structure intended for shelter and symbolic object reflecting attachment place origin. Most research this area focuses on the significance accorded transnational houses by owners families connoted ‘myth return’, but little attention has been given how ownership – constructing, maintaining, overseeing improving accomplished. In...
Human geography has become deeply interested in a range of research methods that focus on researchers’ corporeal engagement with their sites. This interest opened up an exciting set horizons, energising the discipline whole ways. Welcoming this engagement, paper presents series meditations process using researcher’s learning as tool. Exploring two projects, well work photographer Nikki S Lee, it examines how becoming corporeally capable might productively be framed sets ongoing experiments....
Language Contact and Conflict in Arabic: Variations on Sociolinguistic Theme By Aleya Rouchdy. ed. London. RoutledgeCurzon. 2002.
This paper analyzes how leisure practices of diasporic visitors cut viscous trails car-based consumption through Morocco. During ethnography summer holidays with Moroccan-origin from Europe, research participants were often observed consuming elite spaces in ways that predicated on both their familiarity Morocco as a homeland and access to car. Microanalysis emergent dynamics group distinction cohesion achieved car-propelled indicates these may be intentionally avoiding certain kinds...
For diasporic communities fostered through international labor migration, visiting an ancestral homeland can be a transformative encounter. Crossing into “the homeland”, descendants of migrants reorient from relatively underprivileged and socioeconomically immobilized minority, geopolitically mobile economic elite. Moroccans Europe, this transformation recurs every summer, as millions visitors – including several family generations post-migration travel “home” for summer vacation. These...