Nadia Latif's research and teaching focus on forced migration and human rights. She has published on questions in the fields of urban anthropology, labour migration, gender and conflict, law and development, and the history of anthropology. Her current research focuses on the emergence of local political economies in long-term refugee camps and the ways in which these are shaped by war and the provision of humanitarian aid, as well as by labour migration and migrant remittances. She conducts long-term fieldwork in Burj al-Barajneh camp in Lebanon.
Education
- Ph.D., Columbia University