Migration permeates multiple aspects of social and political lives, in interpersonal as much as in international relations. Despite its being a fact as old as humanity, migration is today both a challenge and an opportunity whose understanding passes through in-depth analyses as well as intellectual exchanges and cooperation. 

Each semester, the Global Migration Centre invites guest experts from a broad variety of fields and disciplines (such as History, Sociology, Anthropology, Economy, International Law, Political Science, and International Relations), presenting the Graduate Institute community with ongoing research and analyses. 

Speaker

This first talk will be presented by Professor Jacqueline Bhabha. 

Jacqueline Bhabha is a Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the Director of Research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. She received a first class honors degree and an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London.

From 1997 to 2001, Bhabha directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She has published extensively on issues of transnational child migration, refugee protection, children’s rights and citizenship. She is the author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age (2014) and Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? (2018). She has edited or co-edited many books, including Children Without A State (2011), Human Rights and Adolescence (2014), Research Handbook on Child Migration (2018), A Better Future: The Role of Education for Displaced and Marginalized People (2020), and Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective (2021).

Bhabha was the founding chair of the Scholars at Risk Network, and she serves on the board of the World Peace Foundation, the Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion, Fortify Rights, the Journal of Refugee Studies and the Journal on Migration and Human Security.