Migration, refugees, asylum, immigration restrictions, refugee reception in developing countries and in Europe, war crimes, crimes against humanity, post-conflict justice, statebuilding, Bangladesh, Afghanistan
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Tazreena Sajjad is a professor of refugees and migration studies, statebuilding after war, post-conflict justice, and gender and conflict. She can comment on the issues related to hardening of refugee admissions and asylum policies in the US and Europe, refugee reception in countries of the Global South, refugee experiences in transit and camps, statebuilding after war, women's experiences in war and peace, and political developments in Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Her current research projects focus Rohingya reception in Bangladesh, EU's hardening of restrictions against asylum-seekers and refugees, and the conundrum of statebuilding and displacement crisis in Afghanistan. Her recent publications include “What’s in a name? ‘Refugees’, ‘migrants’ and the politics of labelling in Race and Class (2018), “Refugees Welcome? The Politics of Repatriation and Return in a Global Era of Security: The Rohingyas in Bangladesh," in Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge, “In Search of Imperfect Justice: Genocidal Rape and the Legacy of Nuremberg and Tokyo," in The Nuremberg War Crime Trial and its Policy Consequences Today. Prof. Sajjad is an advisor to Refugee Solidarity Network (RSN). She has appeared on Deutsche Welle, IndusNews, El Mercurio, TBS eFM's This Morning, Al-Jazeera (print and TV), Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Stars and Stripes, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Voice of America. She is available for print, online, radio, and television interviews.