Research Interests in Human Mobilities 
•    Horn of Africa peoples and their diasporas, especially in Sweden, 
•    International migration, 
•    Forced migration, especially refugees and asylum seekers,
•    The impact of migration on gender roles, especially among African migrants and refugees.
•    Remittance sending from the senders’ perspective,
•    The role of social and transnational networks on decision making amongst refugee migrants in countries of the North and the South ,
•    Multiple crises among marginalised communities.
 

Watch a presentation by Dr. Hassanen of her field research work of Eritrean refugees in Sudan.

In arabic, see also: العودة الطوعية الاندماج المحلي وإعادة التوطين

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

• People on the move: experiences of forced migration with examples from various parts of the world

  2013. .

  Book (ed)

  This volume deals with various issues of forced migration from developing countries, in some cases to neighbouring countries, in others to countries in the developed world. The forty-year period covered is from the late 1960s. In some cases the migration processes the contributors concentrate on resulted in settlement on a permanent basis in a receiving country, in their examples with strong links to diasporic communities elsewhere; in other cases the outcome is that individual families making up the diasporic cultural community go transnational themselves, living here at times, living there for periods, commuting and transcending national, cultural, political and linguistic boundaries. Chapters presenting empirical examples are guided theoretically, bringing observations in to theoretical interpretations. These chapters are interspersed with theoretical expositions of concepts such as durable solutions, nation state, citizenship and transnationalism.

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• The effects of migration on the practice and perception Female Genital Cutting (FGC) among the Horn of Africa's immigrants in Melbourne Australia

  2019. Sadia Hassanen, Dawit Okubatsion Woldu, Rahma Mkuu. AIMS public health 6 (1), 67-78

  Article

  This research examines the effects of migration on the practice and perception of Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C) among Horn of Africa immigrants in Melbourne Australia. According to UN 2016 report, on (FGM/C), there are at least 200 million girls and women alive today globally that have undergone some of form of FGM/C. The same report highlights that most of these practices are concentrated in parts of Africa, Middle East and South Asia. Our research employed in-depth semi-structured interviews with 50 men and women informants and five focus groups among the Horn of Africa immigrants living in Melbourne Australia. Interview and focus group data were analysed using MAXQUDA text analysis software to see emerging themes from the data. Upon the examination of the interviews and focus group data, we found that gender and immigration were the two factors that influenced immigrant's perception about FGC. Understanding the social and cultural dynamics on the perception of FGC among immigrant communities in the West could help in devising appropriate interventions to tackle FGC in several groups where this practice is commonly occurring.

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