Dr Michal Agmon-Gonnen
Presiding Judge in the Israeli Federal District Court, affiliate Professor at Tel Aviv University and Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE Law School
Working Group on Feminist Theory, Refugees and Displacement
Established in 2020, the Working Group on Feminist Theory, Refugees and Displacement is the second working group to be created at the RLI. It provides an academic platform for promoting exchange and developing collaborative research using feminist theory in displacement research. Currently, it consists of experts from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, Australia, US and Europe.
Key outputs and activities
- The Working Group is preparing a blog series on feminist theory in displacement research. These include but are not limited to the theories that were discussed by the Working Group in its first year. The introductory blog is here.
- Conference panels, most recently ‘Improving Global Refugee Regime with Feminist Theory’ at the 6th RLI Annual Conference 2022 (podcast here).
- Support to early career scholars in feminist theory and displacement.
The Working Group on Feminist Theory, Refugees and Displacement is convened by Natasha Yacoub. RLI network members who wish to become involved should email the convenor directly.
Current members
Mariza Avgeri
Associate lecturer in Law, Culture and Society, International Law and Public Law at the Open University, UK
Amira Y. Badri
Prof. Sociology of Development, Director Social Sciences and Development Research Unit
Ahfad University for Women, Sudan
Catherine Briddick
Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law, University of Oxford
Professor David James Cantor
Director and Professor of Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies
Tatiana-Maria Cernicova-Dragomir
PhD student within a joint-PhD program between the Law Faculty of the West University of Timișoara (Romania) and Università degi Studi di Udine (Italy)
Professor Heaven Crawley
Professor at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations
Dr Nour Daoud
Regional Analysis and Evidence Advisor - International Committee of the Red Cross / PhD in Social Sciences: Interaction, Communication, and Cultural Construction, University of Padova in Italy
Dr Sourajit Ghosh
PhD Scholar, The Global Program, School Of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy and Comparative Religions, Nalanda University
Marina Gómez Hernández
Human Rights Lawyer (Spain) and a PhD Candidate in International Public Law at the University of Murcia
Dr Helene Grøn
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen
Dr Christina Oelgemoller
RLI Visiting Fellow; Lecturer in International Relations at Loughborough University
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia
Research fellow at the “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” Research Group, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales
Associate Dean for Research and Lecturer, Temple University, Beasley School of Law
Irem Sengul
Assistant Professor at International Law Department, Faculty of Law, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University
Dr Rebecca Smyth
Lecturer in Law at Birmingham City University, specialising in international human rights law
Dr Janna Wessels
Associate Professor at the Amsterdam Center for Migration and Refugee Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dr Cristina Zamora-Gómez
Assistant professor at the Department of International Public Law and International Relations of the University of Alicante (Spain)
Hannah Zaruchas
PhD candidate and research fellow at the doctoral training group 'Dynamic Integration' at Humboldt University Berlin