Shahar Shoham

Dr. Shahar Shoham is an anthropologist specializing in labor and forced migration at the intersection of policy, lived experience, and migrant-centred multi-modal research. Her doctoral research at Humboldt University's Institute for Asian and African Studies examined the Thailand-Israel migration regime, analyzing the regime's multi-scalar structures and histories from the perspective of a sending migration village in Isaan region in Thailand.

Dr. Shoham is an engaged scholar with two decades of experience in advocacy work in academia and beyond. She previously directed the migrants and refugees department at Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and researched Israel's externalization and deportation policies toward refugees. Her latest article, published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, focuses on the ethics of collaborative public struggles with refugees.

Currently, she is developing a multimodal visual anthropology project that builds on her doctoral research. This innovative work explores sending communities' significance for research and political action, returning migrants' lived experiences, and their evolving imaginaries of possible futures and change. The project follows a multimodal anthropology and feminist methodology vision, aiming to move beyond the written text by engaging with multi-sensory modes of knowledge production, the dissemination of academic research and aims to develop translocal practices to support workers' struggles for better futures.