Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California
About
Dr. Hajar Yazdiha is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Current Work:
Dr. Yazdiha's current book project investigates the political career of the collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement. Drawing on a range of archival data, she traces how the collective memory of Black struggle for equality became a readily available political strategy for all political actors, including increasingly conservative groups. In a second project, she examines the rise of immigrant mobilization against the "crimmigration complex," the expanding sets of institutions and policies aimed at criminalizing immigrants. A related project examines how activism is a dynamic mode of incorporation through which immigrants negotiate the conditions of national inclusion. Finally, Dr. Yazdiha compares immigrants' perceptions of exclusion across Western European countries with a range of policy commitments to immigrant integration.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Social movements, race/ethnicity, immigrant incorporation, culture, discrimination
