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In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2021). In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests. Feminist Review, 128(1), 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789211013777

The trope of the repressive Muslim, obstinately attached to their regressive world views, recalcitrant antagoniser of modernity, has become a thoroughly familiar drama. Redundant spectacles abound: events often highly mediatised, substantiated by con... Read More about In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests.

Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence (2018)
Book Chapter
Bruce-Jones, E. (2018). Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence. In M. Bosworth, A. Parmar, & Y. Vázquez (Eds.), Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging (176-193). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0012

This chapter aims to critically interrogate foundational aspects of refugee law from a decolonial perspective. Considered within the context of contemporary debates on counterterrorism and border control in the United Kingdom, it argues that the way... Read More about Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence.

(Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon (2017)
Journal Article
Allouche, S. (2017). (Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon. Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, 3(1), 59-77

This paper heeds Jasbir Puar’s call to supplement an intersectional analysis with an exercise of assemblage when examining identity politics. It argues that asylum organizations’ unwillingness to account for the interplay between the receiving state... Read More about (Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian Refugee-ness in Lebanon.

The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, September). The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj. Presented at Dogs, Pigs and Children: Changing Laws in Colonial Britain, Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS, University of London

In the post-1857 colonial era, the Indian social and legal landscape underwent a seismic shift, caused by an evermore direct and forceful British rule in many spheres of life, including human-animal and gender relations. This paper provides a brief a... Read More about The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj.

Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, April). Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan. Paper presented at 18th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University

This paper presents a critical ethnographic account of Pakistani khwajasara, based on the author’s most recent fieldwork in Lahore in 2011. Khwajasara, known elsewhere in the Indian Subcontinent as hijra, are Pakistani gender-variant subject position... Read More about Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan.

Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities (2013)
Journal Article
Keenan, S. (2013). Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 64(3), 299-316. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v64i3.352

This article explores some of the ways in which law appropriates subversive identities. Drawing on work from geographical, feminist and critical race approaches to property, I put forward an understanding of property as a relation of belonging ‘held... Read More about Bringing the outside(r) in: Law’s appropriation of subversive identities.

Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2012, February). Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan. Paper presented at International Law and the Periphery Conference, American University in Cairo

This study presents a critical legal ethnography of Pakistani khwajasara, located at the very periphery of international law yet at the centre of global legal crisis. Khwajasara, known elsewhere as hijra, are Pakistani gender variant subject position... Read More about Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan.

(Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2011, May). (Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse. Paper presented at Queer Perspectives on Law: Sharing Reflections, SOAS Spring Queer Legal Theory Workshop, SOAS, University of London

This paper comparatively examines some present-day perceptions of the concepts of law and justice by sexually- and/or gender-variant Muslim communities, living in Muslim-majority states. Firstly, it analyses their encounters with two hegemonic identi... Read More about (Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse.

Gender, Diaporas and Post Cold war Conflict (2007)
Book Chapter
Al-Ali, N. (2007). Gender, Diaporas and Post Cold war Conflict. In H. Smith, & P. Stares (Eds.), Diasporas in Conflict: Peace-Makers or Peace Wreckers? (39-62). United Nations University Press

Middle East. Developing DFID’s Policy Approach to Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. Vol 2: Commissioned Papers (2005)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fabos, A., Al-Ali, N., & El-Abed, O. A. B. Middle East. Developing DFID’s Policy Approach to Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. Vol 2: Commissioned Papers

A Research Consultancy by the Refugee Studies Centre (Oxford University) for the Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department, Department For International Development, United Kingdom

New Approaches to Migration: Transnationalism and Transformations of Home (2002)
Book
Al-Ali, N., & Koser, K. (Eds.). (2002). New Approaches to Migration: Transnationalism and Transformations of Home. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203167144

This book critically evaluates the transnational communities approach to contemporary international migration. It does so through a specific focus on the relationship between 'transnational communities' and 'home'. The meaning of 'home' for internati... Read More about New Approaches to Migration: Transnationalism and Transformations of Home.