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CUNY SPH Director and Distinguished Lecturer Kathleen Cravero will host Lebanese American University Assistant Professor and Director Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab for a discussion on the implications of sexual violence and harassment on migrant domestic workers’ mental health in Lebanon.
Drs. Diab & Cravero will discuss:
- How sexual violence and harassment affect the mental health of migrant domestic workers (most of whom are women) in Lebanon
- How the Kafala Sponsorship helps isolate migrant domestic workers in both Lebanon and Gulf Cooperation Council Countries from conversations on health, protection and access.
Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab’s bio
Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab is the director of the Institute for Migration Studies and an assistant professor of migration studies at the Department of Social and Education Sciences at the Lebanese American University. Most recently, Dr. Diab joined the United Nations-mandated University for Peace as a visiting professor at their Department of Peace and Conflict Studies. She has served as an adjunct faculty member of International Migration and Refugee Law at the Oxford Global Institute of Law, as well as a guest lecturer at McGill University on Refugee and Migrant Health, and the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies on Radicalization within Refugee Communities.
Dr. Diab is a research affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, a global fellow at Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, a scholar in Forced Displacement at University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and the lead of the Global Research Network’s Gender and Migration Research Group. She holds a PhD in International Relations and Diplomacy with an emphasis on Asylum, Refugees and Security from the Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies of the School of Advanced International and Political Studies at INSEEC Grande Ecole in Paris, and holds graduate degrees in International Law, Human Rights and Feminist Writings.*
*Source: https://soas.lau.edu.lb/about/people/jasmin-lilian-diab.php
