Michael Nijhawan

My research has been devoted to the study of violence, social suffering and religious identity. My most recent project Precarious Diasporas tackles the long-term social consequences of legal and political violence on Sikh and Ahmadi diaspora communities and their strategies of place-making in the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Canada and Frankfurt, Germany. I have explored how these communities negotiate experiences of social marginalization, trauma and resilience in the context of everyday lived religion. My new research tackles the role of autoimmune disease from a perspective of everyday social relations.