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Dr. Rajai 'Ray' Jureidini
Professor of Migration, Human Rights, and Ethics
Dr. Rajai 'Ray' Jureidini
Professor of Migration, Human Rights, and Ethics
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Sociology
BA Hons. (First Class) in Sociology
Entity
College of Islamic Studies
Program
Master of Arts in Applied Islamic Ethics
Divison
Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics
Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE)
Applied Islamic Ethics
Biography
Dr. Ray Jureidini is Professor of Migration, Human Rights, and Ethics at CILE and the first-of-its-kind Master of Arts program in Applied Islamic Ethics at CIS. He grew up in Australia, completing his studies in industrial and economic sociology at Flinders University, South Australia. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977, majoring in sociology and psychology; First Class Honors in Sociology with a thesis on producer cooperatives; and a PhD thesis on Moral Values in Economic Life: a Case Study of Life Insurance and Superannuation.
In the 1990s, he was Co-founder and Vice-chairman of the Australian Arabic Council, established to counter anti-Arab racism in Australia, as well as Founder and Editor of the Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies. After teaching sociology at five universities in Australia, he spent six years at the American University of Beirut, where he began researching and publishing on human rights abuses of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. At the American University in Cairo, he became Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies and conducted a number of research projects on migrant and refugee issues. In 2011–2014, he returned to Lebanon at the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University. In 2012–2013, he served one year as consultant to the Migrant Worker Welfare Initiative at Qatar Foundation, contributing to the QF Standards for Migrant Worker Welfare for contractors and sub-contractors and completing a report on labor recruitment to Qatar.
PhD in Sociology
Flinders University, South Australia
1987
BA Hons. (First Class) in Sociology
Flinders University, South Australia
1979
BA with Majors in Sociology and Psychology
Flinders University, South Australia
1977
- Migration
- Human and Labor Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Gender Discrimination
- Racism and Xenophobia
Professor of Migration, Human Rights, and Ethics
CIS, HBKU
2014 – Present
Professor of Migration, Human Rights, and Ethics
CILE
2014 – Present
Associate Professor, Sociology
Institute for Migrations Studies, Lebanese American University
2011 – 2014
Research Consultant
Migrant Worker Welfare Initiative, Qatar Foundation, Doha
2012 – 2013
Director
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo
2008 – 2010
Associate Director
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo
2007 – 2008
Acting Director
Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo
2006 – 2007
Associate Professor of Sociology
American University in Cairo
2005 – 2006
Associate Professor of Sociology
American University of Beirut
1999 – 2005
Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology, Monash University, Victoria
1996 – 1999
Lecturer
Department of Sociology, Deakin University, Victoria
1991 – 1996
Lecturer
La Trobe University, Victoria
1989 – 1991
Post-Doctoral National Research Fellow
Australian National University, Canberra
1987 – 1989
Tutor of Sociology
Flinders University, South Australia
1981 – 1987
BOOKS
- Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers.
- Doha, Qatar: Bloomsbury, Qatar Foundation.
- Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
- Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
- Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
- Geelong, Victoria, Australia: Deakin University.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- In Jureidini, R. & Hassan, S. (Eds.), Migration and Islamic Ethics. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers.
- In Tok, M.E., & Pal, Leslie (Eds.), Global Governance and Muslim Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan. 339-364.
- In Rajan, S.I., & Saxena, P. (Eds.), India's Unskilled Migration to the Middle East: Policies, Politics and Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan.
- In Fargues, P., & Shah, N. M. (Eds.), Migration to the Gulf: Policies in Sending and Receiving Countries. Cambridge: Gulf Migration Research and GLMM. 9-32.
- In McAulife, M., & Solomon, M. K. (Conveners), Ideas to Inform International Cooperation on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Geneva: International Organization for Migration.
- In Fargue, P., & Shah, N. (Eds.), Skillful Survivals: Irregular Migration to the Gulf. Cambridge: Gulf Research Center. 135-160.
- In Azid, T., & Kızılkaya, N. (Eds.), Labour in an Islamic Setting: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.
- In Rajan, S.I. (Ed.), India Migration Report 2016: Gulf Migration. Routledge. 36-47.
- In Giles, W., Romero, M., & Preston, V. (Eds.), When Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work. Ashgate.
- In Koser, K., & Martin, S. (Eds.), The Migration-Displacement Nexus: Concepts, Cases and Responses. Berghahan Books. 197-215.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- Sociology of Islam. 5. 224-247.
- Sociology of Islam. 5. 107-111.
- Labour History. Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. 103-122.
- International Migration. 48(4). 142-163.
- Washington DC: Middle East Institute.76-80.
- Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. 5(3). 74-101.
- International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS). 11(1). 75-90.
- Arab Migration in a Globalized World, Geneva: International Organization for Migration. 201-216.
- European Review of International Migration [Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales]. 19(3). 95-127.
- International Migration Papers. 48. Geneva: International Labour Organization. (In English and in Arabic).
OTHERS
- International Labor Organization White Paper. Beirut: International Labor Organization Regional Office for Arab States.
- Migration Policy Center (European University Institute) & Gulf Research Center (Cambridge).
- In Al-Zubaidi, L. (Ed.), Cartoons and Minarets - Western Depictions of Islam and Muslim Public Protest. Heinrich Boll Stiftung.
- KAFA (Stop Violence Against Women).
- Publication by Danish Refugee Council. http://www.drc.dk/fileadmin/uploads/pdf/IA_PDF/Horn_of_Africa_and_Yemen/Mixed%20Migration%20through%20Somalia%20and%20across%20Gulf%20of%20Aden%20-%20Background%20study.pdf.
- Cairo and Geneva: International Organization for Migration. http://www.egypt.iom.int/Doc/A%20Study%20on%20Remittances%20and%20Investment%20Opportunities%20for%20Egyptian%20Migrants%20(English).pdf
- Brighton: University of Sussex. http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/research_reports/Jureidini_Domestic_workers.pdf
- Geneva: International Organization for Migration.
- Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, Terre des Hommes. Egypt: American University in Cairo.
- National Research Fellowship, Public Policy Program — Australian National University, 1987–1989
- Postrgraduate Research Award — Flinders University, South Australia, 1980
- Commonwealth Post-Graduate Research Award — 1980