Tasnim Jabaly, M.A.

Tasnim Jabaly, M.A., is a Research Associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute of Sociology at Philipps University Marburg, and an affiliated member of the Center for Conflict Studies. Within the DFG-funded research group Human Rights Discourses in the Migration Society (MeDiMi), she is pursuing her PhD in the subproject “Doing Human Rights and the Everyday (Ir)Relevance of the Categories ‘Human’ and ‘Migrant’”. She explores how belonging is negotiated in everyday life and the role human rights play in these processes. Her work is grounded in more than a year of ethnographic fieldwork, which she is continuing as part of her ongoing research. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Wuppertal. Alongside her studies, she gained further research experience at the Institute for Social Research and Social Policy in Cologne. In addition, she has worked in various practice-oriented settings, including youth and social work as well as neighborhood-based project development. Her research interests include the sociology of knowledge, ethnography, conflict studies, and the sociology of human rights. Since 2025, she has served as a representative of academic staff on the steering committee of the MeDiMi research group.

Contact: jabaly@staff.uni-marburg.de