![]() My most recent work among immigrants and displaced laborers in the US is culmination of my earlier research revealing the intimate connections in community development processes across the globe including Michoacán, Mexico, Lomé, Togo and the rustbelt of United States. In the 1990s, I studied this relationship through the experience of low-income communities, particularly female-headed households in Latin America since the late-1990s I studied the struggle for justice and equity through the experience of racialized township residents in post-apartheid South Africa. I am particularly interested in the global and local development processes and contingencies involved in the formation of the city and citizens’ struggles for dignified livelihood - namely, how groups disadvantaged by class, gender, race, and ethnicity mobilize for resources such as shelter, basic infrastructure, and services and how institutional arrangements facilitate and frustrate provision and access to such vital urban resources.Ī native of Iran, over the years my research and teaching has spanned several regions including the Middle East, Latin America, Southern Africa, and North America. My research concerns social and institutional aspects of urban development and planning that address basic human needs including housing and urban infrastructure and services that support it. ![]() My scholarship is situated at the intersection of sociology, geography, planning, and feminist studies, using case study and ethnographic methodologies.
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