About
My project focuses on the intersections of language, religion, and migration in the context of transnational kinship networks spread across Morocco, France, and other parts of Western Europe. I am broadly interested in how personhood emerges out of social interaction, and how that emergence is afforded and constrained by various moralizing discourses related to familial, religious, national, and ethno-linguistic identity and belonging. My research examines these questions in a multilingual context where people regularly use different varieties Arabic, French, Spanish, and Tarifit (a Amazigh indigenous language spoken primarily in Northern Morocco).
Research Interests
ethics and morality; identity and belonging; Imazighen; Islam; kinship; multilingualism; social interaction; transnational migration
