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Shamin Asghari is an external PhD candidate at Van Vollenhoven Institute, Law Faculty, Leiden University. She is conducting her research on Afghan migrants' in Iran with focus on the governance of migration, Afghans' legal adaptation and their integration.

PhD Sociology, University of Michigan (2011)
Ramón y Cajal Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (current)

I am a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. My research interests focus on curriculum development and instructional strategies for education in emergencies. I am currently conducting a cross-cultural comparative study on the language development of newly arrived migrant students in monolingual countries, namely in Turkey and Germany. The purpose of my research is to explore how language curriculum is planned and implemented in both countries and reveal what structural factors in pre-, trans-, and post-migration ecologies predict the language proficiency of newly arrived migrant students.

PhD. Social Anthropology (Universidad de Barcelona, BCN, Spain), Master degree in Anthropology and development (Universidad de Chile, Santiago Chile), social work (Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile). Currently a teacher and researcher at the UA

Currently a teacher and researcher at the UA in qualitative research method (TSF, Ethnography, content analysis), research related with reproductive heatlh and migration, neglected diseases: Chagas disease in LA, Chile, BCN.
Specialist in training of health teams, in areas of interculturality, racism, health care with cultural relevance.
I have developed online training courses for health teams, in areas of health care for Haitian migrants, migrants and training in qualitative research methodology and specialty in Chagas.

I have led research teams, national and international research funds.
I have developed IEC material aimed at the population in general and the migrant population in particular, health teams in relation to Chagas. More info: www.chaochagaschile.cl

My PhD research focuses on how refugee-background children in the UK experience language education in schools. This necessarily draws on their geographic and social trajectories, their experiences of integration into schools, classrooms, and local communities, and the state of English as an Additional Language programmes and policies at both the school and local government levels.

This reflects my wider interest in migration, language and linguistics, and the sociology of education. More specifically, my work draws on Critical Race Theory, Language Policy Planning and Engagement, and decolonial methodologies. As I work with refugees, it's important to examine their place in the English education system and their experience of power(lessness) as an already vulnerable group who also have to negotiate a systematically racist social system and increasingly anti-immigration sociopolitical sentiment (see Brexit).