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Portrait of Safinaz Jadali

Safinaz Jadali

International law and human rights scholar

Visiting Toronto Metropolitan Univeristy

Winter 2025

Safinaz Jadali holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Strasbourg, France. She has over 15 years of field experience in the humanitarian sector, specifically in refugee protection.  In addition to her academic career as an Assistant Professor at Azad University in Tehran, she has served in various capacities in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iran. Safinaz's research interests and publications are rooted in the legal dimensions of asylum and statelessness, focusing on the intersection of international law, human rights and refugee protection.

Research focus while a Fellow with CERC

With the aim of expanding her understanding regarding social inclusion and integration of regular and irregular forcibly displaced people, especially Afghans, Safinaz will exchange information and ideas from operational and policy decision-making perspectives with the research team at CERC Migration and relevant local stakeholders and partners including NGOs.

Publications and Reports

(2021) Immigration and Revolution in Iran: Asylum Politics and State Consolidation, REMHU, Rev. Interdiscip. Mobil. Hum., Brasília, v. 29, n. 63

(2019) Situation of Rohingyas from Human Rights Perspective: From Statelessness to Forced Migration, Iran and International Comparative Legal Studies Journal, (Autumn-Winter Series)

(2019) Criminalization and Accountability for Refoulement: A Path to Improve International Asylum Protection Regime, 18 ISIL Y.B. INT'l HUMAN. & REFUGEE L. [vi] (2018-2019)

(2015) L’Iran, Pays d’acceuil, Un point de vue juridique sur les migrants et refugies, Homme et Migration Journal, numéro 1312, Octobre 2015

(2013) Freedom of Movement of Afghan Refugees in Iran, Forced Migration Review, Issue 44, September 2013