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Zainab Abu Alrob
Zainab is a PhD student in Policy Studies at Ryerson University. She holds an MA in Global Governance from the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo. Her research focuses on borders, refugee protection and access to human rights for refugees and asylum seekers in Canada. Zainab is currently involved in research projects examining the impact of border security measures on the rights of irregular migrants and the right to international refugee protection in Canada. She is the founder and lead editor of The Migration Initiative, hosted at Ryerson, and a member of the IMISCOE Methodological Committee at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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