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PhD Student
University of Connecticut, School of Social Work
Hartford, CT, United States
Fizza Saghir is a PhD student, researcher and international social worker at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Her research interests and areas of work include human rights, forced migration, war and politics, international social work, refugee rights, Islamophobia, economic sanctions, and peacebuilding. Her current projects include research related to Ukrainian refugees receiving temporary shelter in Bulgaria, climate change crisis and difference in perceptions of youth from Global North and Global South, a study on factors of perceived discrimination among Muslims in the US, understanding alternative approaches to analysis of hate crimes policy with respect to Islamophobia in the US, and a critical analysis of economic sanctions on Afghanistan, focusing on right to health. She teaches courses on the Holocaust and genocides, international social work, and human rights.
She continues to work with different war and genocide-survivors and forcibly displaced refugee populations, globally such as Karen refugees from Myanmar, Ukrainian refugees in Bulgaria, and Afghan and Rohingya refugees settled in India. Previously, as Chief Minister’s Fellow in the Government of Delhi, India, she has handled significant managerial responsibilities in Delhi Government’s flagship projects covering multiple dimensions of child rights-education, health, violence, and abuse. From training and capacity-building of adolescents in the urban slums to advocacy for rights of domestic workers and from working on sexual and gender-based violence to engaging in community awareness on child abuse, she has experience of working with several vulnerable populations and marginalized communities.
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Friday, October 25, 2024
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT
Rise in Islamophobia: Alternative Approaches to Analysis of Hate Crimes Policy in the United States
Saturday, October 26, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT