Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/her) is a Canadian-Lebanese expert on migration, gender, and conflict studies. Presently, she is the director of the Institute for Migration Studies and an assistant professor of migration studies at the Lebanese American University. In previous roles, she served as the refugee health program coordinator and research associate at the American University of Beirut's Global Health Institute. She is currently also an adjunct faculty member of international migration and refugee law at the Global Institute of Law and has worked as a guest lecturer at McGill University, Montreal in refugee and migrant health. In addition, Dr. Diab is a research affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Toronto, a global fellow at Brown University's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies in Providence, a scholar in forced displacement at the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Center, a senior consultant on refugee and gender studies at Cambridge Consulting Services, a peace responsiveness expert at Interpeace, and the lead of the Gender and Migration Research Group at the Global Research Network.
Introduction Over the past decade, more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon at an unprecedented rate. With a total population approaching 4 million people, Lebanon presently hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. Lebanon’s population has hence grown substantially since this mass influx, a drastic increase that has […]
