Nassim Majidi
Dr. Nassim Majidi is the co-director and lead of Samuel Hall’s Migration and Displacement Pillar. She is an Affiliate Researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre for International Studies (CERI) and Research Associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Nassim specialises in return migration and solutions to displacement; she has published more than twenty academic and policy articles on migration issues and she teaches a graduate course on Refugees & Migration as part of Sciences Po Lille’s Conflict and Development Programme. At Samuel Hall, she leads evidence-based research and policy development on migration and displacement. Covering three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) over the past twelve years, her cross-cutting skills have led her to interview refugees, migrants, and returnees in the world’s border areas, conflict settings, and countries of origin. Nassim was nominated in 2015 by the Norwegian Refugee Council for the Nansen Refugee Award in recognition of her work on behalf of Afghanistan’s displaced population. She is the co-investigator of the Children inequalities work package for the GCRF South-south migration hub (2019-2023), an advisory board member for Refugees Deeply and the Jesuit Refugee Services. Nassim holds a BA in Government from Cornell University, a Masters in International Affairs and Development Studies and a Ph.D. in International Relations and MIgration studies from Sciences Po Paris.
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