shreya.parikh

Shreya Parikh is a Dual Ph.D. candidate in sociology at CERI- Sciences Po Paris and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Beyond Borders Fellow (2022-24) at Zeit- Stiftung. She is also an affiliated researcher at Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis. Her dissertation research focuses on the constructions and contestations of race and racialization in Tunisia through a focus on the study of racialization of Black Tunisians and Sub- Saharan migrants. Parikh is interested in the study of race, borders, migration, and citizenship in the North Africa region and its diaspora.

Her research has been funded by Noria Research, the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), Global Religion Research Initiative at the University of Notre DameKenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, and internal grants from her institutions of affiliation. Her research has been published in MERIP’s Middle East Report and IRMC’s Carnet; her essays have appeared in Nawaat (Tunisia), The Wire (India), and Dawn (Pakistan). Parikh grew up in Ahmedabad in India, and undertook her previous studies at Sciences Po Paris and the American University of Beirut.

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Thesis

Race and Racialization in North Africa: The case of Blackness in "Arab" Tunisia, sous la direction de/supervised by Daniel Sabbagh & Charles Kurzman (Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Main Publications

"The Limits of Confronting Racial Discrimination in Tunisia with Law 50." MERIP Middle East Report 299. 2021 (Summer).

"La construction et la contestation de la blackness autour de la Méditerranée : cas de la Tunisie et de la diaspora tunisienne en France." Le Carnet de l’IRMC. Tunis, Tunisia. 2021.

"Policies and Politics of Teaching Religion in India." Policies and Politics of Teaching Religion. Ed. by Karim El Mufti and Theodor Hanf. Baden Baden: Nomos. 145-152. 2013.

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