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Omid Asayesh

PhD

Positions

Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology

Contact information

Email

omid.asayesh@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Location

Office: Social Science 908

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
SOCI 311	Introductory Social Statistics I	Fall 2025
SOCI 311	Introductory Social Statistics I	Spring 2024
SOCI 475.9	Topics in Race and Ethnic Relations - Sociology of Migration	Winter 2024

Awards

Honorable Mention - Louis Wirth Best Article Award, American Sociological Association. 2024
James Frideres Award in Quantitative Sociology, University of Calgary. 2024
Japan Sociological Society Award in Transnationalism in Context of Crises, Japan Sociological Society. 2023

Publications

Homo Emigraturus vs. Anti Emigraturus: the rise of involuntary immobility in Iran and its consequences. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies . (2023)
Culture of Migration: A Theoretical Account with a Particular Focus on Iran. Canadian Ethnic Studies. (2024)
Migration Aspiration: The Migration Tendency and the Image of the West Among the Iranian Student-Migrants. The Journal of Cultural Studies and Communication. (2020)