Rawan Arar
Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Societies, and Justice
University of Washington
Box: 353565
CSDE Committees: Executive Committee Member
CSDE Research Areas:
- Migration and Settlement
In the News:
- Arar Publishes Article on “Humanitarian Fiction” in Refugee Hosting Practices (04/16/2025)
- Awar to Co-host Evening of Reflection on the Life and Activism of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi (10/25/24) (10/11/2024)
- Arar and Colleagues Highlight Culture as Key to Biopyschosocial Development for Arab Americans (02/08/2024)
- CSDE Welcomes Arar as New Seminar Series Chair! (08/17/2023)
- Arar Publishes Article on Refugee Trajectories in the Global South (08/17/2023)
- Arar and Fitzgerald New Book Published -The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach (11/06/2022)
- CSDE Welcomes Four More Faculty Affiliates! (02/08/2021)
- Panel: New Methodologies in the Study of Migrations & Settlements (02/01/2021)
- Spotlight on CSDE Affiliate, Rawan Arar (09/28/2020)
Rawan Arar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California San Diego. Her research program begins with the refugee as a central figure of analysis. Refugee displacement is the manifestation of the breakdown of borders and citizenship rights while refugee status, as a legal construct, is delimited by the principle of sovereignty. Refugees’ lives and life chances are inextricably tied to national and global policies, which create or impede access to basic needs, education, rights, and mobility. Rawan’s research lies at the intersection of these issues and pushes forward debates about states, rights, and theories of international migration.