Dr Haifa AlArasi

Haifa AlArasi is a Research Associate in children’s mobilities. Her scholarship draws on the mundane as means of broadening constructions of childhoods, mobilities, and cities. In her research, she engages with critical qualitative methodologies and grounded spatial visualizations to better understand reproductions of marginalized bodies, experiences, and spaces. 

She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto (2023) where her doctoral work explored questions related to immigrant adolescent mobilities that are embodied and embedded in the environment, the social and the material. Prior to joining the TSU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Cities, University of Toronto (2023).

As part of an ESRC-funded project, Haifa’s work is currently focused on examining the mobilities of children with non-visible disabilities aiming to better account for the daily hidden labour of families and their children in active travel policies.  

AlArasi, H., & Buliung, R. (2023). Exploring the tactical mobilities and everyday activity of immigrant adolescents in a Canadian suburban city. Children's Geographies, 21(5), 961-976.

Alarasi, H., & Buliung, R. (2021). Using Photovoice to Explore Teenagers’ Public Transit Experiences in a Suburban City. Findings.

Alarasi, H., Martinez, J., & Amer, S. (2016). Children’s perception of their city centre. A qualitative GIS methodological investigation in a Dutch city. Children's Geographies 14 (4): 437–452.