Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. lecturer in law at Harvard Law School, the Director of Research at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard and the University Adviser on Human Rights Education to the Provost at Harvard University. She is also a lecturer on public policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
From 1997 to 2001, Bhabha directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, Bhabha 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 M.Sc from Oxford University, and a J.D. from the College of Law in London.
Bhabha is also the joint author of two other books: Womens Movement (1994) and Worlds Apart: Women Under Immigration and Nationality Law (1990). Her edited volume, Children Without a State: A Global Human Rights Challenge will be released in February 2011. Moving Children: Human Rights Dilemmas in Contemporary Child Migration, Bhabha’s next book is forthcoming. Bhabha has published extensively on issues of migration, refugee protection, children’s rights and citizenship. She directed and co-authored the product of an international research project, entitled Seeking Asylum Alone (2006), on unaccompanied and separated child asylum seekers.
Bhabha’s writing on issues of migration and asylum in Europe and the U.S. has been collected in an edited volume, Asylum Law And Practice in Europe and North America (1992). Along with her monograph publications, Bhabha has also published several book chapters, including “Border Rights and Rites” in Women and Immigration Law, and many articles, including “Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: Identity, Citizenship and Exclusion in Europe” (1998), “Inconsistent State Intervention and Separated Child Asylum Seekers” (2001), “Internationalist Gatekeepers? The tension between asylum advocacy and human rights” (2002) and "The Citizenship Deficit: On Being a Citizen Child" (2003).
Bhabha currently works on issues of transnational child migration, trafficking, adoption, children’s economic and social rights, and citizenship. She teaches international human rights, children’s rights and refugee law. Along with her scholarly and teaching work, Bhabha chairs the board of the Scholars at Risk Network and serves on the boards of the US section of International Social Services, the World Peace Foundation and the Journal of Refugee Studies.
(Biography from: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/jacqueline-bhabha)
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Jacqueline Bhabha papers, Ms.2010.041, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library.
The Jacqueline Bhabha papers consist of writings by Bhabha and others, along with legal briefs, case decisions, and government policies on matters relating to child trafficking, refugees, and migrants.
Series 1 includes articles written and talks given by Jacqueline Bhabha in academic, government, and public arenas between 2004 and 2006.
Series 2 contains four notebooks of handwritten notes by Bhabha from an LLM course abbreviated as “PHR,” dated 1993.
Series 3 is comprised of articles written by various authors between 1994 and 2005 with copious notes and comments by Bhabha. These articles discuss human rights, child trafficking, general human trafficking, and refugee policy.
Series 4, Course Materials, contain syllabi and notes from “Medicine, Human Rights, and the Physicians” and “Citizens, Aliens, and Refugees,” dated between 2001 and 2004.
Series 5 contains government policy statements, human rights organization publications, legal briefs, articles, and correspondence about child trafficking and general human trafficking. Much of the material outlines specific cases of trafficked and refugee children from various countries. These materials are dated between 1994 and 2005.
Series 6 includes government policy statements, human rights organization publications, legal briefs, articles, and correspondence about refugees and migrants from 1987 to 2004. Some of the material specifically addresses the issue of healthcare for legal and illegal immigrants and refugees with undetermined status. The series includes the research report authored by Kate Stanley of Save the Children entitled, “Cold Comfort,” and case materials from re R-A-, brought before the United States Attorney General.
Series 7 and 8 make up four folders. Series 7, NGOs, contains articles and correspondence about the role of NGOs in assisting refugees. Series 8, Conferences, contains materials for two conferences – one on the issue of torture, and one entitled, "Gendered Borders." These materials are from 2004.
The collection is arranged into the following eight series:
The Jacqueline Bhabha papers were donated to the Feminist Theory Papers by Jacqueline Bhabha in June 2010.
Further additions to this collection are expected.