Jacqueline Bhabha

Lecturer in Public Policy
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 (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

  • ISP-229 International Childhood, Rights & Globalization

Media Expertise

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Research

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. "The Child – What Sort of Human?" PMLA 121.5 (October 2006).
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline. "'Not a Sack of Potatoes:' Moving and Removing Children Across Borders." Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 15.2 (Spring 2006): 197-218.
  • Book Chapters
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Border Rights and Rites: Generalizations, Stereotypes and Gendered Migration." Women and Immigration Law: New Variations on Classical Feminist Themes. Ed. Sarah Van Walsum and Thomas Spijkerboer. Routledge-Cavendish, 2006.
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline. “Un Vide Juridique? – Migrant Children: The Rights and Wrongs.” Realizing the Rights of the Child. Ed. Carol Bellamy and Jean Zermatten. Rüffer & Rub, 2007.
  • Books
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline, and Mary Crock, assisted by Nadine Finch and Susan Schmidt. Seeking Asylum Alone - A Comparative Study: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee Protection in Australia, the UK and the US. Themis Press, 2007.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline, and Mary Crock with Nadine Finch and Susan Schmidt. "Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee Protection in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.: A Comparative Study." The Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, February 2007.
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline, and Nadine Finch. "Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee Protection in the U.K." The Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, November 2006.
    • Bhabha, Jacqueline, and Susan Schmidt. "Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee Protection in the U.S." The Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, June 2006.