Tazreena Sajjad

Tazreena Sajjad currently serves as Senior Professorial Lecturer in the Global Governance, Politics and Security (GGPS) Program in the School of International Service (SIS) 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 'Sexual and Gender-based Violence in the Displacement Continuum: The Experiences of Rohingya Women and Girls,' Border Criminologies (2024), 'A Graveyard of Convenience: Violent Maritime Pushbacks and Untimely Deaths as Strategies of Migrant Deterrence in Europe and Beyond,' EU-Renew (2023), 'Once We Were Refugees: Security, Solidarity and a View from the Global South,' Journal of Refugee Studies (2022), 'Strategic Cruelty: Legitimizing Violence in the European Union's Border Regime,' 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 include refugee reception in the Global South, border violence and the migrant experience in the EU, and South-to-South solidarity on issues of international peace and security.