Zainab Saleh
Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College and author focused on migration, displacement, and citizenship in Iraq; author of Political Undesirables and Return to Ruin.
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Jan 24, 2026 • 44min
Zainab Saleh, "Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Zainab Saleh, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College who studies migration and citizenship in Iraq. She traces mass denaturalizations of Iraqi Jews (1950–51) and Iraqis of Iranian origin (1980s). Short accounts explore legal tools used to label people as foreign, family memory of neighborhood expulsions, and how expelled Iraqis reclaimed belonging through language and social ties.
