The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia

Brown Bag Lunch

Noora Anwar Lori

Research Fellow, International Security Program Harvard University

Offshore Citizenship: A Market Solution to the Problem of Migrant Incorporation

The speaker will be presenting a microhistory of one mans journey as a twice -denaturalized citizen, over three decades, across three continents. This research was funded by the American Council for Learned Societies and Mellon Foundation, and the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius Foundation. .

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Noon 202 Jones Hall

Noora Anwar Lori is a research fellow at the International Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She is currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, and will join the Academy scholars at the Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies at Harvard University in the Fall 2013. Lori has published in the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal and for the Institut franais des relations internationales (IFRI). She has previously held positions as an Adjunct Faculty member and Visiting Scholar at the Dubai School of Government, and a Dubai Initiative Fellow at the Belfer Center of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Sponsored with the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies Beverages, potato chips and cookies will be provided