Jacqueline Bhabha - Biography

Jacqueline Bhabha (born 1951) is an attorney and lecturer in law at the Harvard Law School and a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy 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 in 1951, the daughter of Jewish refugee parents who had moved to India to flee Nazi Germany. The family moved to Milan, Italy in 1961 when she was ten years old.

Bhabha matriculated at Bedales, a British boarding school. Bhabha received a first class honours degree in philosophy and psychology from Oxford University in 1973, and an M.Sc. in applied social studies in 1975 from Oxford. She received her law degree from the College of Law in London.

She is married to Homi K. Bhabha, the critical theorist. They have three children; Ishan, Satya, and Leah.

Professional appointments

• Jeremiah Smith, Jr. lecturer in law at Harvard Law School
• Executive director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
• Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
• Director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago (1997-2001)
• Practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg

Publications

• "Pertenecer a Europa: ciudadanía y derechos posnacionales"
• 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)

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External links

• Profile Harvard Magazine
• University of Chicago article