Nadia Latif

Nadia Latif

Nadia Latif is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University. Her research and teaching focuses on questions around forced migration and human rights. She has published in the fields of urban anthropology, forced 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.