Hari KC

Hari is a migration scholar with research interests in the politics of migration, pertaining to labour migration along South Asia-Middle East corridors, migration policy and governance, and gender and migration. In his doctoral research, he explored the issues of Nepali women migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Gulf countries. This research was based on six months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Nepal, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates with funding support of the IDRC Doctoral Research Award.

He has collaborated on several research projects, including the Gender + Migration Hub (external link)  which seeks to enhance the capacity of governments, civil society and other stakeholders in designing and implementing gender-responsive migration policies and programs.

Hari is associated with the International Migration Research Centre at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, where he taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses on migration, citizenship, and global justice. Before joining CERC Migration, Hari was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University where he focused on the nexus of labour migration and food in/security from a gender perspective. In the past, he also taught at Tribhuvan University in Nepal and worked for the BBC Media Action, Embassy of India, and the Carter Centre. Hari has a PhD in Global Governance from the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, and master’s degrees in English and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Waterloo.