I am a research fellow (postdoc starting November 2023) at the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. I study irregularised migration and removal as an anthropologist and work at the intersections of critical border studies and the field of “affective sciences” to bring to light the undeniable power of emotions, feelings, motivations, moods, and other affective processes in the migratory lives of people subjected to unequal mobility through restrictive...
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3682 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7935-2030 |
| https://twitter.com/@usmanmahar | |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of St. Gallen
University, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Postdoc (Nov 2023) -
University of Munich (LMU)
University, Munich, Germany
Doctoral fellow (dissertation submitted) -
University of Zurich
University, Zurich, Switzerland
Postdoc -
University of St. Gallen
University, Saint Gallen, Switzerland
Postdoc -
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University, Munich, Germany
Doctoral Researcher -
World Bank Group
Other, Frankfurt, Germany
Research Associate (External - Temp)
Research
The feeling of destiny: taqdeer and ‘voluntary’ return in the everyday lives of irregularised Pakistani migrants
| Authors | Usman Mahar |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Authors and Editors
| Authors | Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, Pascale Schild, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | The Multi-Sided Ethnographer |
Contents
| Authors | Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, Pascale Schild, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | The Multi-Sided Ethnographer |
Frontmatter
| Authors | Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, Pascale Schild, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | The Multi-Sided Ethnographer |
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field beyond Research
| Authors | Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, Pascale Schild, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | The Multi-Sided Ethnographer | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Acknowledgements
| Authors | Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, Pascale Schild, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | The Multi-Sided Ethnographer |
Introducing the Multi-Sided Ethnographer
| Authors | Anna-Maria Walter, Pascale Schild, Usman Mahar, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | The Multi-Sided Ethnographer |
Qurb\ani
| Authors | Usman Mahar |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | The Multi-Sided Ethnographer | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘I came to Australia with very big hope, big wishes, big goals’
| Authors | Daile Lynn Rung, Heidi Hetz, David Radford |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Migratory Men | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Book Reviews
| Authors | Ekaterina Khonineva, Usman Mahar, Karen Mogendorff, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Social Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Armytage, Rosita. 2020. Big capital in an unequal world: the micropolitics of wealth in Pakistan. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. 206 pp. Hb.: US$120.00/£89.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐616‐6.
| Authors | Usman Mahar |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Social Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
In Pursuit of Masculinity
| Authors | Usman Mahar |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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