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Marwa Bakabas

Research fellow

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Background

Marwa Bakabas is currently completing her graduate degree at the American University of Beirut in the Department of Anthropology. Her ethnographic research is based on her fieldwork in refugee spaces in both Greece and Lebanon. She looks at the need provisions of how challenges are addressed during migration and of haphazardly constructed dwellings. Thus far, elements of her research include the ageing population, politics of the sea, as well as the death and dying. She has been inspired to develop a more holistic view of how humans operate in the context of refugee spaces. Other interests include the space of dwelling, suffering, conflict, memory, and identifying how needs are negotiated as a social practice.

Research Project

With this particular fellowship, Marwa is interested in using her ongoing research to apply it in studying the impact of borders during times of conflict and migration. Specifically, she looks at the space of refuge and how it is applied when it impacts rights to mobility. She will continue to look at the narratives of sea and land migration through a qualitative methodological approach and apply it to the influence of borders through an anthropological lens.