Dr. Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Since early in his academic career, Dr. Khosravi has been working in two different research fields: precarity in urban Iran, and the migration and border studies of Europe. He defended his doctoral dissertation on youth culture in Tehran in 2003 which later on was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008 (Young and Defiant in Tehran) followed by his second book on social changes in the Iranian society published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2017 – ‘Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran‘. Since 2004, he has also been studying borders and bordering practices in Europe. These projects include fieldwork among undocumented immigrants in Stockholm published in ‘Illegal Traveller: An Auto-ethnography of Borders‘ and fieldwork research on the consequences of deportation for Afghan migrations published in ‘After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives‘ (by Palgrave 2017). His most recent project has been on temporal bordering, resulting in two edited books: ‘Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration‘ (Routledge 2020) and an art book ‘Waiting – A Project in Conversation‘ (Transcript 2020).

As a public educator, Professor Khosravi has been active in the media as well. He has written for Swedish newspapers, The Guardian and New York Times. His works have been translated into many languages such as Chinese, Armenian, Persian, Greek, Spanish, Italian and French. In 2017 he started Critical Border Studies which is a network for scholars, artists and activists to interact.

Professor Khosravi is currently engaging with the Durham-led interdisciplinary project, The Politics of Credibility. The project will cast fresh analytical light on the politics of credibility that underpin asylum determination regimes in the UK and Europe (Greece, Cyprus and Germany).

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