Jacqueline Bhabha

Lecturer on Law, HLS
Dir., University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Office Address
Rubenstein-218
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 14
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-384-7743
Fax: 617-495-4297
Email: Jacqueline_Bhabha@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Karen Armstrong-Menard (617-496-7388)
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Profile

Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School. From 1997 to 2001 she 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 received a first class honors degree and an MSc from Oxford University and a JD from the College of Law in London. She has recently authored three reports entitled Seeking Asylum Alone about unaccompanied child asylum seekers. Her writings on issues of migration and asylum in Europe and the United States include a coauthored book, Women's Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law, an edited volume, Asylum Law And Practice in Europe and North America,and many articles, including Internationalist Gatekeepers? The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights and The Citizenship Deficit: On Being a Citizen Child. She is currently working on issues of child migration, smuggling and trafficking, and citizenship.

Courses

Fall

  • IGA-305 International Childhood, Rights & Globalization

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Arendt's Children: Do Today's Migrant Children Have a Right to Have Rights?" Human Rights Quarterly 31.2 (May 2009): 410-451.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances." Conference paper for Working Group on Childhood and Migration, Drexel University, Philadelphia, June 21, 2008.
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Coding the Humanitarian." Conference paper presented at Connecticut College, New London, October 11, 2008.
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Leaving Home to Find a Home: The Elusive Right to Family." Conference paper for Human Right Lecture Series, Trinity College, Hartford, November 4, 2008.
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Ineffective Citizenship: The Engine of Global Child Trafficking." Conference paper for Eleanor Roosevelt College Provost's Lecture Series, UCSD, San Diego, November 21, 2008.
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Independent Children, Inconsistent Adults: International Child Migration and the Legal Framework." UNICEF Discussion Paper IDP2008-02, 2008.