Ray Jureidini

Director, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo

 

Ray Jureidini is Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Ray has previously held the position of associate professor and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the American University of Beirut and has taught in several Australian universities. His research interests lie in the fields of industrial sociology (producer cooperatives and industrial restructuring in Australia), economic sociology (life insurance, pension funds, gift relationships and international aid), migration, human rights, racism, and xenophobia. His current research looks at temporary labor migration and concepts of ‘unfree’ or ‘slavery-like’ migrant labor and human trafficking, with particular focus on female migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and the Middle East. He is currently involved in a number of research projects including: child domestic workers in Egypt, remittance investment of Egyptian migrants abroad, livelihoods of Sudanese refugees in Cairo and trajectories of Somali refugees in the region.

                                               

Research Project: Post-Crisis Household Division of Labour in Lebanon

 

Selected Publications

 

    * State and Non-State Actors During the Conflict in Lebanon, July-August 2006 in Khalid Koser and Susan Martin (eds.) The Migration-Displacement Nexus: Concepts, Cases and Responses, Berghahan Books, 2009.

    * Irregular Workers in Egypt: migrant and refugee domestic workers in International Journal for Multicultural Societies, 2009.

    * Sexuality and the Servant: An Exploration of Arab Images of the Sexuality of Domestic Maids in the Household in Sexuality in the Arab World ed. S. Khalaf and J. Gangnon, Saqi Press, 2006.

    * Migrant Workers and Xenophobia in the Middle East, in Y. Bangura and R. Stavenhagen (eds.) Racism and Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 48-71, 2005.

    * Human Rights and Foreign Contract Labour: Some Implications for Management and Regulation in Arab Countries in Arab Migration in a Globalized World, International Organization for Migration, Geneva, pp. 201-216, 2005.

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