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Haqqi Bahram

Associate Professor

My research explores statelessness and its various intersections in contexts of forced migration and asylum and in relation to identity formation and belonging.

PhD Project

Syrian Kurds and Politics of Citizenship: Between Statelessness and Displacement

Focusing on life narratives of stateless Kurds from Syria in Sweden and Germany, I critically examine politics of citizenship between home and exile interrogating 'solutions' to the problem of statelessness. Grounded in stateless standpoint epistemology, my study aims to unpack (the legacy of) statelessness within the current context of forced migration and its socio-political impact on constructions of identity and belonging.

Theoretically I draw from theories of citizenship, forced migration, standpoint epistemology and identity.

Publications

Cover of publication 'Statelessness Beyond Citizenship: Kurds of Syria and the Struggle for Identity Between Home and Exile'
Haqqi Bahram (2024)
Statelessness Beyond Citizenship: Kurds of Syria and the Struggle for Identity Between Home and Exile

2024

Haqqi Bahram (2024) Statelessness Beyond Citizenship: Kurds of Syria and the Struggle for Identity Between Home and Exile (Doctoral thesis, monograph) https://dx.doi.org/10.3384/9789180757652

2021

Haqqi Bahram (2021) Too little too late?: naturalisation of stateless Kurds and transitional justice in Syria Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship, p. 264-275 (Chapter in book)
Haqqi Bahram (2021) Towards a Stateless Standpoint Epistemology Statelessness and Citizenship Review, Vol. 3, p. 113-119 (Article in journal)
Haqqi Bahram, Thomas McGee (2021) Kurdes syriens : après l'exil, l'apatridie en Europe Plein droit, Vol. 128, p. 15-18 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.3917/pld.128.0017

2020

Haqqi Bahram (2020) Between Tokenism and Self-Representation: Refugee-Led Advocacy and Inclusion in International Refugee Policy (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3965609

Research network

Global PhDs on Statelessness Network (GPS), hosted by The Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness 

Research environment

Man in refugee camp behind the Belgrade Central Station

Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society - REMESO

REMESO conducts research with a multilevel approach to the understanding of migration, ethnicity and society.

Teaching

I am a teacher at the bachelor programme in Social and Cultural Analysis (SKA) and the international master's programme in Ethnic and Migration Studies (EMS)

Social and Cultural Analysis, 180 credits, 180 credits

The Social and Cultural Analysis programme focuses on modern society and its´changes. You will study peoples´ varied living conditions, as well as political, social and ethnic identities and conflicts.
Refugee tents at Lesbos, Greece

Ethnic and Migration Studies, Master's Programme, 120 credits

Learn to analyse the causes of migration, and consequences for formations of race, gender, labor, citizenship, healthcare, welfare and culture. Relates ethnicity and migration to economic and cultural change, to systems of domination and resistance.

News

Haqqi Bahram, reseracher at REMESO..

10 June 2025

Complex and lasting consequences of statelessness

A stateless person is not a citizen in any country. However, the phenomenon of statelessness extends far beyond this legal definition. In his doctoral dissertation Haqqi Bahram exposes the complexity of living this reality and its lasting legacy.
Ph.D.:s

10 April 2025

An unique Exchange within Austria and Sweden

A group of LiU PhD candidates took part in a research exchange programme in Vienna. The programme is a collaboration in philosophy, sociology, and migration studies, that strengthens the research and the academic ties between Austria and Sweden.

Organisation

Migration camp

Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO)

REMESO pursues research and education on transnational migration, ethnic diversity and citizenship in relation to changes in labour and welfare.

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.
Groups of students at tables in Studenthuset

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FILFAK)

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences provides education and research in humanities, social- and behavioral sciences, commercial law, art disciplines and thematic science.