Dr Faten Khazaei

Assistant Professor

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I am an interdisciplinary scholar by training, and I work at the intersection of gender studies, critical race studies, but also sociology of migration, institutions and violence. I am interested in racialisation of social problems and my empirical approach encompasses qualitative research methods, including multi-sited ethnography and expert interviews.

My research interests include:

• Racialisation of social problems
• Postcolonial, subaltern and decolonial theory and politics
• Feminist theory and politics
• Intersectionality and politics of difference
• Critical race studies
• Ethnography of public institutions

Key Publications

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Intersectional Making of the ‘Sri Lankan Case’: The Racialization of Domestic Violence in the Swiss Police Force, Khazaei, F. 1 Mar 2024, In: British Journal of Criminology
La colonialité du genre, ou comment « sauver » les victimes migrantes des violences conjugales, Khazaei, F. Dec 2022, In: Ethnographiques.org
The truth told by the body: Swiss medicolegal responses to intimate partner violence from a gender perspective , Khazaei, F. 1 Jul 2021, In: Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies
Grounds for dialogue: Intersectionality and superdiversity, Khazaei, F. Mar 2018, In: Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies
Racism in/Through Migration Studies, Khazaei, F. 31 Oct 2025, Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Le Racisme Antimusulman en Suisse, Khazaei, F. 9 Jun 2022, Un/doing Race, Zurich, Switzerland, Editions Seismo
Ethnography of police ‘domestic abuse’ interventions: Ethico-methodological reflections, Khazaei, F. 2020, Home, Taylor & Francis
Visualising Truth to Power: A response to Forensic Architecture (2024) A Cartography of Genocide: Israel’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023, Khazaei, F., Ahmad Kaker, S., Fleetwood, J., Pfingst, A. 26 Jun 2025, In: Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal