Marwaa Zazai

Visiting Scholar

Marwaa Zazai is a visiting scholar at the CPCP and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Geography at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her doctoral research is part of the interdisciplinary project Meat the Bioeconomy, which critically examines the German meat industry from both economic-geographical and sociological perspectives. In her dissertation, she focuses on labor processes, labor regimes, and management strategies within the German meat sector. Her research interests include labor relations, racial capitalism, migration and border regimes, as well as questions of union organizing. She holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) for teaching at secondary schools and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in (Human) Geography, both from the University of Hamburg. During her stay as a visiting scholar at the CPCP, she is also supported by a Fulbright Germany Scholarship.

Participating Years

2025–2026

Mobility: Transit and Transformation

Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.