Dr. Zuhra Abawi is an Associate Professor in the Critical Policy, Equity and Leadership Studies ARC. She is a scholar, activist and practitioner. Her research draws on antiracism, anti-colonialism and discourses of state development to frame refugee access to education in host countries along Global North/South geographies. She is particularly interested in the politics of deservingness in determining access to education as an epistemic good of the state and how hegemonic power relations informed by whiteness undergird constructions and categorizations of humanity.