Profile
Heba's research, which is global and comparative, centers the lives of people who migrate across borders, and the unequal and often violent institutions they face. She is author of an award winning book Refuge, published with Princeton University Press, which explores how states shape the potential of people pursuing refuge within their borders. She is currently working on her second book, The Cost of Borders, which theorizes borders as series of costly, and often deadly, transactions.
For more on her academic and public writing check out her website at hebagowayed.com.