my name is Sabrine and I am not a spy.

 

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Human Geography at the University of Toronto. I wander around the intersections of Urban Geography and Migration Studies. I am often asked if I am a spy because my name carries two spelling mistakes. One from my dad who blames the Israeli immigration officer. One from my mom, who blames the unhelpful nurses at the Lasalle hospital in Montreal. With Sabrien Amrov instead of Sabrine Amro, people anticipate a Russian man but ⁠— rarely ever happy ⁠— must settle for me. Navigating these confusions has taught me how familiarity and strangeness tend to travel together.  I study and teach at the University of Toronto where I am completing a dissertation on questions of migration, cognitive mapping, and social formations and how these are co-constitutive of space. My photography shared throughout this website is part and parcel of this writing practice.

 

You can read more about my work here.