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Heba Gowayed is the Moorman-Simon Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences. Her research is global and comparative, focusing on how low-income individuals, particularly refugees, navigate immigration systems, social services, and state bureaucracies while confronting structural inequalities related to gender, race, and class.
Her work critically investigates how state policies shape human potential and reconfigure human capital, challenging conventional views that treat human capital as an individual attribute. Drawing on comparative ethnography across the U.S., Canada, and Germany, her research reveals how resettlement and asylum policies actively create, transform, or destroy refugees' capabilities and opportunities.
She is the author of the forthcoming book Refuge, to be published by Princeton University Press in 2022, which presents a deep ethnographic analysis of how states shape the lives and potential of those seeking refuge. Her scholarship contributes significantly to the fields of migration studies, political sociology, and inequality research.
Her recent presentation at UC Berkeley, titled Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential, highlights her active engagement in academic discourse and her role as a leading emerging scholar in the sociology of migration and state formation.
- Moorman-Simon Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University
- Book: Refuge (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2022)
- Research Focus: State incorporation policies, refugee integration, human capital, social inequality
- Methodology: Global comparative ethnography
- Geographic Focus: United States, Canada, Germany
