Zaheera Jinnah, PhD

Zaheera Jinnah is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Social Work at the University of Victoria and a Research associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society, Wits University, South Africa. She has taught and published extensively in the area of migration, and refugee studies.

 

She is a racialised mother and migrant, a Designated Representative at the Immigration and Refugee board of Canada, and  volunteers as a board member at the Masjid Al Iman. Zaheera is a grateful visitor on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen peoples, and is committed to decolonial and anti racism work.