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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Nasar Meer is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the Social Sciences, with a concentration on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Management Science and Operations Research, General Health Professions, Finance, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their scholarly output spans a variety of topics, among which are Migration and Labor Dynamics, Evaluation and Performance Assessment, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Homelessness and Social Issues, Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory in Education, and scientometrics and bibliometrics research.

Recent notable publications by Nasar Meer include:

  • "Genealogies of 'Jews' and 'Muslims': social imaginaries in the race-religion nexus", 2020, Patterns of Prejudice
  • "Governing displaced migration in Europe: housing and the role of the 'local'", 2021, Comparative Migration Studies
  • "Rethinking refuge in the time of COVID-19", 2020, Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • "The role of asylum in processes of urban gentrification", 2021, The Sociological Review
  • "Justice and the racial dimensions of health inequalities: A view from COVID-19", 2022, Bioethics

The venues where Nasar Meer has most frequently published include:

  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Identities
  • Patterns of Prejudice
  • Comparative Migration Studies

Nasar Meer has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Justyna Bandola-Gill, Ellen Stewart, Richard Watermeyer, Katherine E. Smith, and Emma Hill.

Their book publications are primarily with Policy Press, featuring titles such as The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (2022) and The Impact Agenda (2020), along with a book from the University of Edinburgh titled Advancing Racial Equality in Higher Education (2023).

The scholar has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, reflecting their standing within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • The Multicultural State We're In: Muslims, ‘Multiculture’ and the ‘Civic Re-balancing’ of British Multiculturalism

    Nasar Meer;Tariq Modood

  • How does Interculturalism Contrast with Multiculturalism

    Nasar Meer;Tariq Modood

  • Racialization and religion: race, culture and difference in the study of antisemitism and Islamophobia

    Nasar Meer

  • Refutations of racism in the ‘Muslim question’

    Nasar Meer;Tariq Modood

  • Citizenship, identity and the politics of multiculturalism: the rise of Muslim consciousness

    Nasar Meer

  • Embodying Nationhood? Conceptions of British national identity, citizenship and gender in the 'veil affair'

    Nasar Meer;Claire Dwyer;Tariq Modood

  • What can health inequalities researchers learn from an intersectionality perspective? Understanding social dynamics with an inter-categorical approach?

    Anuj Kapilashrami;Sarah Hill;Nasar Meer

  • The politics of voluntary and involuntary identities: are Muslims in Britain an ethnic, racial or religious minority?

    Nasar Meer

  • Governing through Prevent? Regulation and Contested Practice in State–Muslim Engagement

    Therese O'Toole;Nasar Meer;Daniel Nilsson DeHanas;Stephen H Jones

  • Citizenship, Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism

    Nasar Meer

  • A sociological comparison of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain

    Nasar Meer;Tehseen Noorani

  • The racialisation of Muslims

    Nasar Meer;Tariq Modood

  • Multiculturalism and Interculturalism: debating the dividing lines

    Nasar Meer;Tariq Modood;Ricard Zapata-Barrero

  • Muslim Schools in Britain: Challenging mobilisations or logical developments?

    Nasar Meer

  • Key Concepts in Race and Ethnicity

    Nasar Meer

  • Interculturalism, Multiculturalism or Both?:

    Tariq Modood;Nasar Meer

  • Taking Part: Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance

    Therese O'Toole;Daniel Nilsson DeHanas;Tariq Modood;Nasar Meer

  • Semantics, scales and solidarities in the study of antisemitism and Islamophobia

    Nasar Meer

  • Examining 'postmulticultural' and civic Turns in the Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and Denmark

    Nasar Meer;Per Mouritsen;Daniel Faas;Nynke de Witte

  • Misrecognizing Muslim consciousness in Europe

    Nasar Meer

  • Book review : White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism, by Roger Hewitt.

    Nasar Meer

Frequent Co-Authors

Tariq Modood
Tariq Modood University of Bristol
Katherine E. Smith
Katherine E. Smith University of Strathclyde
Anna Triandafyllidou
Anna Triandafyllidou Toronto Metropolitan University
Simon C. Hunter
Simon C. Hunter Glasgow Caledonian University
Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont Harvard University

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