Sara Hormozinejad
Sara Hormozinejad is a researcher on the project To Naturalize or Not? A Comparative Study of Understandings of Canadian Citizenship Among Eligible Migrants Who Naturalize and Those Who Opt Out, supported by CERC Migration and Bridging Divides. The project examines how naturalized citizens and eligible permanent residents in Canada understand citizenship, comparing the perspectives and experiences of those who choose to naturalize with those who opt out. Prior to this role, Sara contributed to the Transnational House project, which explored the experiences of Iranian immigrants in Toronto in relation to homeownership and homemaking.
Sara is also a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her SSHRC-funded dissertation investigates how migration aspirations are socially constructed and transformed throughout the migration trajectory鈥攆rom emigration to settlement and return. Focusing on Iranian migrants, her research foregrounds the temporal dynamics of mobility and the cultural and imaginative dimensions that shape migration aspirations across transnational contexts. Sara holds an MA in Anthropology from the University of Toronto and a BA (Honours) in Anthropology from the University of Calgary. Before immigrating to Canada, she was a teacher in Iran.
Recent publications
With Goldring, L., Landolt, P., Borras, J., Elgueta, N., and Marshall, S. (2024). . Toronto: FCJ Refugee Centre, York University and the University of Toronto.
(2023). 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Socialpolicy.ch&苍产蝉辫;2023(2):1鈥�19.