Bio
Thomas McGee is completing his PhD through the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, at the University of Melbourne Law School. Thomas is also the MENA Coordinator at the European University Institute's Global Citizenship Observatory (Globalcit), co-coordinator of the MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati) and Non-resident Fellow at the University of Lancaster's Project SEPAD. Previously, Thomas has worked for a decade as an analyst and adviser on humanitarian and development programmes implemented in Syria and with the IDP Protection Team at the UN Refugee Agency in Iraq.
PhD Thesis title: Syria's Changing Statelessness Landscape: Protracted Situations and “Ticking time bombs
Recent relevant publications
- Not only a Problem in Exile: Risks of Statelessness for Syrian Children Born in Internal Displacement Contexts (November 2022) Researching Internal Displacement
- A State of Emergency in North-East Syria: Hundreds of Thousands Displaced and a Muted International Response (October 2019) Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre