Sajjad briefed National Press Foundation fellows in March 2022: Don’t Call Them ‘Swarms.’

Tazreena Sajjad currently serves as Senior Professorial Lecturer in the Global Governance, Politics and Security Program in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. Her areas of specialization include transitional justice, refugees and forced displacement, post-conflict governance and gender and conflict.

Sajjad’s recent publications include ‘Once We Were Refugees: Security, Solidarity and a View from the Global South,’ in the Journal of Refugee Studies (2022), ‘Strategic Cruelty: Legitimizing Violence in the European Union’s Border Regime,’ in Global Studies Quarterly (2022), ‘Refugees Welcome? The Politics of Repatriation and Return in a Global Era of Security: The Rohingyas in Bangladesh’ in Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge’ (Manchester University Press, 2020), ‘In Search of Imperfect Justice: Genocidal Rape and the Legacy of Nuremberg and Tokyo’ in The Nuremberg War Crime Trial and its Policy Consequences Today (2020), ‘What’s in a name? “Refugees,” “Migrants” and the Politics of Labelling,’ in Race and Class (2018).

Her current research projects examine the role of ‘safe’ country agreements as a form of migrant deterrence focusing on the EU-Afghanistan deal, and refugee reception in the Global South.

Prior to joining SIS, Tazreena Sajjad worked in the Afghanistan program at Global Rights in Afghanistan, and in the South Asia program at the National Democratic Institute. She has also served as a research consultant at the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit in Kabul, Afghanistan, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in Washington, D.C., and the Berghof Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Her first book, Transitional Justice in South Asia: A Study of Afghanistan and Nepal, was published in 2013.

She currently serves as an advisor to Refugee Solidarity Network and is a faculty affiliate of The Transatlantic Policy Center, The Immigration Lab and The Antiracist Research and Policy Center at AU. She is a 2020 recipient of the SIS William Cromwell Outstanding Teaching Award.