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Name
Halleh Ghorashi
Books
Ways to Survive, Battles to Win: Iranian Women Exiles in the Netherlands and United States
Education
VU University Amsterdam
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Halleh Ghorashi (also spelled Ghoreishi; born 30 July 1962 in Tehran) is an Iranian-born anthropologist who lives in the Netherlands. From 2005-2012, she held the PaVEM chair in Management of Diversity and Integration in the Department of Organization Sciences at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She won the 2008 Triumph Prize.
Ghorashi grew up in Iran, coming to the Netherlands in 1988 as a political refugee. She studied cultural anthropology at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and received her Ph.D. at University of Nijmegen in May 2001, with a doctoral dissertation titled Ways to Survive, Battles to Win: Iranian Women Exiles in the Netherlands and the U.S. In 2005, she was appointed professor, and in 2006, she became the first occupant of the chair for Management of Diversity and Integration, endowed by PaVEM, the Dutch government's Committee for Participation of Women of Ethnic Minority Groups. Her inauguration was attended by Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, chair of PaVEM and was widely covered in the Dutch media.
In 2008, Ghorashi was co-organizer of a conference on the Muslim diaspora. In 2009, she was a speaker at a protest in front of the Binnenhof (Dutch Parliament Building).
Halleh Ghorashi is cited as a proponent of more inclusive political thought, countering the Dutch political climate of the early 21st century with its strong populist and anti-Islamic discourse. Ghorashi argues that when immigrants are maligned and excluded from political debate integration into Dutch society cannot be expected.
In 2010, Dutch feminist magazine Opzij listed her as one of the most powerful women in the Netherlands.
Books
Ways to Survive, Battles to Win: Iranian Women Exiles in the Netherlands and the US. New York: Nova Science, 2003. ISBN 978-1-59033-235-1.
The Transnational Construction of Local Conflicts and Protests Nijmegen : Stichting Focaal, 2006. OCLC 603051165
(with Sharam Alghasi & Thomas Hylland Eriksen) Paradoxes of cultural recognition : perspectives from Northern Europe Ashgate, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7546-9585-1.
Review, by Dix Eeke, in Nations and Nationalism, 16, no. 1 (2010): 192-194.
(ed. with Haideh Moghissi) Muslim Diaspora in the West : Negotiating gender, home and belonging. Ashgate, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4094-0287-9.
Papers and Reports
1990s
"Iranian Islamic and Secular Feminists: Allies or Enemies?" Series: Occasional paper (Middle East Research Associates), 27. 1996.
2000s
"Agents of change or passive victims: the impact of welfare states (the case of the Netherlands) on refugees". Journal of Refugee Studies. Oxford Journals. 18 (2): 181–198. June 2005. doi:10.1093/refuge/fei020.
"When the boundaries are blurred". European Journal of Women's Studies. Sage. 12 (3): 363–375. August 2005. doi:10.1177/1350506805054275.
2010s
With: Szepietowska, E. (2010). "Diversiteit is niet alleen kleur in organisaties. Diversiteitsbeleid en –praktijk in de Nederlandse Goede Doelen Organisaties". Utrecht: UAF.
With: ten Holder, F. (2012). "Kleine stappen van grote betekenis: een nieuw perspectief op humane opvang van asielzoekers" Amsterdam: Stichting de Vrolijkheid.
With: Sabelis, Ida (March 2013). "Juggling difference and sameness: Rethinking strategies for diversity in organizations". Scandinavian Journal of Management, special issue: Managing in Time. ScienceDirect. 29 (1): 78–86. doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2012.11.002.
With: Ponzoni, Elena (2014). "Reviving agency: taking time and making space for rethinking diversity and inclusion" [Wedergeboorte van agency: scheppen van tijd en ruimte voor reflectie op diversiteit en insluiting]. European Journal of Social Work. Taylor and Francis. 17 (2): 161–174. doi:10.1080/13691457.2013.777332.
"Bringing polyphony one step further: Relational narratives of women from the position of difference". Women's Studies International Forum, special issue: Embodied Engagement. ScienceDirect. 43: 59–66. March–April 2014. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2013.07.019.
