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Lalaie Ameeriar
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies
York University
Education/Degree:
1 Anthropology (Stanford University)
About
Lalaie Ameeriar is an assistant professor in Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Professor Ameeriar's research interests include globalization, transnationalism, multiculturalism, gender, and labor. She has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the UC Center for New Racial Studies, and the National Bureau of Economic Research at Harvard University. She has also been a fellow at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.
Current Work
Professor Ameeriar's research draws from multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan, and Toronto, Canada. She is currently working on a manuscript which focuses on the transnational labor migration of Pakistani Muslim women and examines the ways that questions of unemployment are increasingly being rationalized and understood by governmental bodies and policy makers as questions of culture and racialized bodily difference. Her next project is a post 9/11 examination of the experiences of South Asian women at the border deemed suspect. While much has been written on the racial profiling that happens to South Asian men at the border, for South Asian women there is a corresponding phenomenon that draws on popular images of Other women. South Asian women's border crossings demonstrate the intersections of gender, race, security, and nation in processes of globalization, and illustrate the specific ways these intersections are deeply implicated in the politics of racialization, citizenship, and belonging. In this context, borders have moral economies and crossing the border becomes a gendered act.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Anthropology