Rima Kalush

Rima Kalush is a DPhil student in Migration Studies researching the situation of migrants in Libya through a critical ethnography of Afro-European migration governance. Her DPhil project takes an interdisciplinary approach that reflect her interests in human rights, labour rights, and migration.

Since 2011, she has worked as the editor and, later, director of Migrant-Rights.org, an advocacy and research organization focused on the Gulf states and wider Middle East. Her work has been published and referenced by Al Jazeera, the International Labour Organisation, and Jadaliyya, among other institutions. She holds a MPhil in Middle Eastern Area Studies from the University of Oxford, as well as BA in History and a BA in Politics from the University of California, Davis.