Nadine Hassouneh

 Research Fellow +358 44 909 2568

Phd

  • Internal Displacement
  • Intra-State Deportations
  • Syrian Conflict
  • Safety, Security, & Risk Studies
  • Refugee Studies
  • Critical Humanitarian Studies and Everyday Humanitarianism
  • (Stateless) Diaspora Studies
  • Language and Context Specific Methodologies

 

Introduction
 
My name is Nadine Hassouneh and I am currently a Senior Research Fellow and Co-PI of the Kone Foundation funded project titled No Time for Despair: The Geopolitics of (Peri)menopause<http://www.menopolitics.space> (aka Menopolitics) based at The Migration Institute of Finland/Siirtolaisuusinstituutti. I am also a Visiting Researcher at Tampere University and the Space and Political Agency Group (SPARG). I hold a PhD in International Conflict Analysis and an MA in International Development from the University of Kent, UK.

Personal Website https://www.gotlost.space/
 
Projects
 
No Time for Despair: The Geopolitics of (Peri)menopause (Koneen Säätiö 2026 – 2030)

The Bad Project: Knowledge and Aid Beyond the Project Economy (Koneen Säätiö 2022 – 2026)
 
Publications
 
Hassouneh, N. “From Invalidation to Precarity: A Story of an Upgrade<https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0508.21>” (2026). In Burlyuk, O. and Rahbari, L. (Eds.)  in Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity in the Global North Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.

Hassouneh, Nadine., and Pascucci, Elisa. March 2025. “Bypassing Former Blunders: Grassroot Testimonies from Syria’s Aid Ecosystem prior to Al-Assad’s Run Off”<https://odihpn.org/publication/bypassing-former-blunders-grassroot-testimonies-from-syrias-aid-ecosystem-prior-to-al-assads-escape/>. In HPN: Humanitarian Practice Network

Hassouneh, N. (2025). Risk Dumping: Humanitarian Programming in Opposition-held Syria<https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/journals/jha/6/2-3/article-p14.xml?body=FullText>. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 6.2/3.

Hassouneh, N. (2022). The Green Bus and the Viapolitics of Intra-State Deportations in Syria.<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2121269> Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Hassouneh, Nadine and Pascucci, Elisa. (2022). “Nursing Trauma, Harvesting Data: Refugee Knowledge and Refugee Labour in the International Humanitarian Regime”<https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003092421/refugees-knowledge-production-magdalena-kmak-heta-bj%C3%B6rklund> in Refugee Scholarship and Refugee Knowledges of Europe (M.Kmak and H.Björklund. Eds.), Routledge

Hassouneh, Nadine, and Pascucci, Elisa. 2019. “As A Donor, The EU Should Not Ignore the Protection Needs of Syrian Aid Workers<https://politiikasta.fi/en/as-a-donor-the-eu-should-not-ignore-the-protection-needs-of-syrian-aid-workers-2/>”. In Politiikasta

Hassouneh, Nadine. (2018). “Muting Refugees, Voicing Diasporas: The Case of the Palestinians.” in World of Diasporas: Different Perceptions on the Concept of Diaspora.<https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004388048_004> (H.S.Majhaila & S.Doğan, Eds.). Leiden: Brill Rodopi.
 
Teaching
 
Lecturer for: Decentering the Global 2025, Specified Advanced Courses, Tampere University, Finland

Lecturer for: Decentering the Global 2024, Specified Advanced Courses, Tampere University, Finland

Lecturer: BA in Human Geography – Level 2: Citizenship and Identity: Comparative Perspectives, September Term 2021/2022, University of Leeds, UK