Books
Books and Editorship
2021-2026 Joint Editor-in-Chief, Nordic Journal of Migration Research. Helsinki University Press
2023 Nina Gren, Dalia Abdelhady and Martin Joormann (Guest Editors). Refugees and Bureaucratic Violence. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. York University.
2022 Dalia Abdelhady and Ov Cristian Norocel (Guest Editors), Special Issue on Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. Taylor and Francis.
2022 Dalia Abdelhady and Ramy Aly (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Middle East Diasporas. 32 chapters. Routledge.
2020 Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, Martin Joormann* (Eds.). Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe. 12 chapters. Manchester University Press.
2016-2020 Founding Editor-in-Chief, Nidaba: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies (vols. 1-3). Lund University Press.
2011 Dalia Abdelhady. The Lebanese Diaspora: The Arab Immigrant Experience in New York, Montreal and Paris. New York University Press.
PPeer-Reviewed Articles in Scientific Journals
2025 Mikaela Linell* and Dalia Abdelhady, “Embodied Oscilliative Ethics: A Framework for Participatory Ethics in Body Mapping Research,” International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251369299
2024 Nina Gren, Dalia Abdelhady and Martin Joormann, “Unmasking the Impact of Bureaucratic Violence on Refugees,” Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 39 (2): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41163
2023 Dalia Abdelhady and Ov Cristian Norocel, “Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows,” Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 21(2): 119-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2168097
2023 Dalia Abdelhady and Akram Al-Ariss, “How Capital Shapes Refugees’ Access to the Labour Market: The Case of Syrians in Sweden,” International Journal of Human Resource Management, 36 (16): 3144-3168. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2022.2110845
2022 Dalia Abdelhady and Amy Lutz, “Perceptions of Success among Working-Class Children of Immigrants in Three Cities,” Ethnicities, 22 (6): 815-837. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968211022114
2022 Dalia Abdelhady and Fatmanur Delioglu*, “Human Interest Stories in the Coverage of Syrian Refugees: A Case Study from Turkey,” Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 9 (1): 93-120. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/858274
2020 Amy Lutz and Dalia Abdelhady, Working-Class Children of Mexican Immigrants in Dallas. City and Community, 18 (2): 310-314. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12497
2017 Matthew Hodes, Melisa Mendoza Vasquez, Dimitris Anagnostopoulos, Kalliopi Triantafyllou, Dalia Abdelhady, Karin Weiss, Roman Koposov, Fusun Cuhadaroglu, Johannes Hebebrand, Norbert Skokauskas, “Refugees in Europe: National Overview from Key Countries with a Special Focus on Child and Adolescent Mental Health,” European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 27: 389-399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-017-1094-8
2016 Matthew Clare* and Dalia Abdelhady, “No Longer a Waltz Between Red Wine and Mint Tea: The Portrayal of the Children of Immigrants in French Newspapers (2003-2013),” International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 50: 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.10.003
2015 Dalia Abdelhady, Karin Aggestam, Dan-Erik Andersson, Olof Beckman, Ronny Berndtsson, Karin Broberg Palmgren, Kaveh Madani, Umut Ozkirimli, Kenneth M. Persson, and Petter Pilesjo, “The Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Is There a Meeting Point between Nationalism and Hydrosolidarity? Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, 155, 73-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2015.03197.x
2014 Amy Lutz, Yaël Brinbaum and Dalia Abdelhady, “The Transition from School to Work for Children of Immigrants with Lower-Level Educational Credentials in the United States and France,” Comparative Migration Studies, 2 (2): 227-254. https://doi.org/10.5117/CMS2014.2.LUTZ
2008 Dalia Abdelhady. “Representing the Homeland: Lebanese Diasporic Notions of Home and Return in a Global Context.” Cultural Dynamics, 20 (1): 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374007088055
2007 Dalia Abdelhady. “Cultural Production in the Lebanese Diaspora: Memory, Nostalgia and Displacement.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 35 (1): 39-62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45372706
2006 Dalia Abdelhady. “Beyond Home/Host Networks: Forms of Solidarity Among Lebanese Immigrants in a Global Era.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 13 (3): 427-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/10702890600839595
2005 Richard Alba and Dalia Abdel-Hady. “Galileo’s Children: Italian Americans’ Difficult Entry into the Intellectual Elite.” The Sociological Quarterly, 46 (1): 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.2005.00002.x
1997 Dale Huntington, Leila Nawar, and Dalia Abdel-Hady. “Women’s Perceptions of Abortion in Egypt.” Reproductive Health Matters, 5 (9): 101-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0968-8080(97)90011-2
Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Edited Books
2025 Dalia Abdelhady and Minja Mårtensson*, “Narratives of Refugeeness in Sweden: Shifting Representations over Time.” In Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories, edited by Johanna Leinonen, et. al. Helsinki University Press.
2022 Dalia Abdelhady and Ramy Aly, “Coming to and Coming from the Middle East: The Unfolding of Diaspora.” In The Routledge Handbook of Middle East Diasporas, edited by Dalia Abdelhady and Ramy Aly. Routledge.
2022 Dalia Abdelhady, “Resisting Marginalisation, Renegotiating Gender: Intersectional Narratives of Diaspora Experiences.” In The Routledge Handbook of Middle East Diasporas, edited by Dalia Abdelhady and Ramy Aly. Routledge.
2020 Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren and Martin Joormann*, “Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Norther Europe: An introduction.” In Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe, edited by Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, and Martin Joormann, Manchester University Press.
2020 Dalia Abdelhady, “Media Constructions of the Refugee Crisis: Institutions and the Challenges of Refugee Governance.” In Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe, edited by Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, and Martin Joormann, Manchester University Press.
2019 Dalia Abdelhady, “Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts.” In The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, edited by Cecilia Menjivar, Marie Ruiz, and Immanuel Ness, Oxford University Press.
2018 Dalia Abdelhady and Gina Fristedt Malmberg*, “Media Representation of the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Islam, Securitization and Self-Reflection.” In Anti-Judaism, Islamophobia, and Interreligious Hermeneutics: How Conflicts in the Middle East and Beyond Shape the Way We See the Religious Other, edited by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, Brill Publishers.
2015 Dalia Abdelhady, “Lebanese Women Transnational Immigrant Experiences: Gendered Geographies of Power,” in Rita Stephan, Guita Hourani and Cornelia Horn (eds.). In Line with the Divine: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Lebanon. Abelian Publishing.
2013 Richard Alba, Roxanne Silberman, Dalia Abdelhady, Yaël Brinbaum and Amy Lutz, “How Similar Educational Inequalities are Constructed in Two Different Systems, France and the United States: Why They Lead to Disparate Labor-Market Outcomes,” In Richard Alba and Jennifer Holdaway (Eds.). The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe. New York University Press.
2013 Dalia Abdelhady, “The Sociopolitical History of Arabs in the US: Assimilation, Ethnicity and Global Citizenship,” In Sylvia Nassar-McMillan, Julie Hakim-Larson, May Darwish-Yassine and Kristine Ajrouch (Eds.). Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Arab Americans. Springer Publishing.
2011 Richard Alba, Dalia Abdelhady, Tariq Islam, and Karen Marotz. “Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment.” In Richard Alba and Mary Waters (Eds.). The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective. New York University Press.
2011 Dalia Abdelhady. “Gender, Sexuality and the Lebanese Diaspora: Global Identities and Transnational Practices.” In Steven Seidman, Nancy Fischer and Chet Meeks (Eds.) Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays and Interviews. New York: Routledge.
2010 Dalia Abdelhady. “The Myth of Return Reconsidered.” In Paul Tabar and Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss (Eds.) Politics, Culture, and the Lebanese Diaspora. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Non-Peer Reviewed: Editorials, Reports and Reviews
2025 The Rightward Shift: Transformation of Global Migration Policy and Discourses. The Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 15 (1): 1-3.
2024 I en demokrati kan en statsminister stå ut med att bli störd (In a democracy, a prime minster can tolerate being disturbed). Sydsvenskan 6/5/2024 (with Emma Eleonorasdotter, Karin Zackari, and Victor Pressfeldt).
2024 Studenternas aktivism visar en hoppfull strävan (Student activism shows a hopeful endeavor). Sydsvenskan, 22/4/2024 (with Emma Eleonorasdotter, David Bowling, Karin Zackari, Victor Pressfeldt, Shirley Chan, Camila Borges Freitas et al.)
2024 Gaza and the Right to Have Rights (with Nahikari Irastorza, Martin Joormann, Jacob Lind and James Root). Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 14 (1): 1-3.
2023 Politikerna struntar i klimatforskningen: Regeringens politik är katastrofal – nu måste fler svenskar kräva en omstllning (Policians ignore climate science: Government policy is disastrous – now more Swedes must demand change). Aftonbladet Debatt, 30/11/2023 (420 authors).
2023 Att vara emot urskillningslöst dödande har inget med antisemitism att göra (Being against indiscriminate killing has nothing to do with antisemitism). Sydsvenskan 24/10/2023 (with Emma Eleonorasdotter, Victor Pressfeldt, Anton Öhman, David Bowling, Emma Shachat, Simon Halberg).
2022 Politiska aktivister från Mellanöstern–en energi för Europas demokratier (Political activists from the Middle East – an energy for Europe’s democracy). Sydsvenskan (with Sarah Anne Rennick).
2022 NJMR: Over 10 Years of Commitment to Publishing Excellent Research. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 12(4): 376–378 (with Peter Holley and Nahikari Irastorza).
2022 What can we learn from the reception of Ukrainian refugees? Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 12(3): 255-258 (with Lena Näre and Nahikari Irastorza).
2021 ‘Welcoming’ European Welfare States are Forcing Refugees through Mazes of Harmful Rules. The Conversation (with Nina Gren and Martin Joormann).
2020 Review of Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity (by Ramy Aly). Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North Africa Migration Studies.
2013 Dalia Abdelhady, May Aldabbagh and Ghalia Gargani, Women and Globalization in the GCC: Negotiating States, Agency and Social Change. Proceedings Report. Dubai School of Government.
2010 Review of Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America (by Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith (Eds.) Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33 (10): 1840-1841.
2008 Review of Studies in Social Organization: Ethnicity, Class, and Politics (by George A. Kourvetaris). Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 37 (1): 298-300.
2004 Review of Muslims in the United States: The State of Research (by Karen Leonard Social Forces, 83 (1): 444-445.
