- Jacqueline Bhabha
Jacqueline Bhabha (born
1951 ) is an attorney and lecturer in law at theHarvard Law School . Her research and legal practice has focused on citizenship and rights of aliens, refugee law, trafficking and smuggling.Childhood and education
Bhabha was born in
Bombay ,India in1951 , the daughter ofJewish refugee parents who had moved to India to fleeNazi Germany . The family moved toMilan Italy in1961 when she was ten years old.Bhabha matriculated at
Bedales , a British boarding school. Bhabha received a first class honours degree in philosophy fromOxford University in1973 , and an M.Sc. in applied social studies in1975 from Oxford. She received her law degree from theCollege of Law in London.She is married to
Homi K. Bhabha , the critical theorist. They have three children; Ishan, Satya, and Leah [pronounced LAY-UH, not LEE-UH.] Leah is currently a sophomore at Cornell University.Professional appointments
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Jeremiah Smith, Jr. lecturer in law atHarvard Law School
*Executive director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
*Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at theKennedy School
*Director of the Human Rights Program at theUniversity of Chicago (1997-2001)
*Practicing human rights lawyer inLondon and at theEuropean Court of Human Rights inStrasbourg Publications
*Co-author "Women's Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law" (1994),
*Editor "Asylum Law And Practice in Europe and North America" (1992),
*Article "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: Identity, Citizenship and Exclusion in Europe" Human Rights Quarterly (1998),
*Article "Internationalist Gatekeepers? The tension between asylum advocacy and human rights"(2002),
*Article "The Citizenship Deficit: On Being a Citizen Child" (2003).
*Article "Reforming Immigration Policy Boston" Review (2005)
*Article "Moving Babies: Globalization, Markets, and Transnational Adoption" Fletcher Forum (2004)External links
* [http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/jacqueline_bhabha Faculty bio Harvard University]
* [http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050549.html Profile Harvard Magazine]
* [http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0012/features/bhabha.html University of Chicago article]
* [http://www.harvard-magazine.com/lib/05mj/images/57x01x0505.jpgphoto]
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