Hari KC

Hari KC is a migration scholar with his broad research interests in the politics of migration pertaining especially to migration and mobility, labour migration (mainly along South Asia-Middle East corridors), migration policy and governance, and gender and migration. In his doctoral research, he explored the issues of Nepali women migrant domestic workers in the Gulf countries in Asia. This research was based on six months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Nepal, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates with the funding support of the IDRC Doctoral Research Award. Hari has also collaborated on several research projects, including the “Gender + Migration Hub” (https://gendermigrationhub.org) which seeks to enhance the capacity of governments, civil society and other stakeholders in designing and implementing gender-responsive migration policies and programs. Hari is also associated with the International Migration Research Centre at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, where he taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses on migration, citizenship, and global justice, among others. Before joining the CERC, Hari was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University with his work looking at the nexus between labour migration and food in/security from a gender perspective in the context of South Asia. He has also taught at Tribhuvan University in Nepal and also worked, in various roles, for the BBC Media Action, Embassy of India, and the Carter Centre. Hari has a PhD in Global Governance from the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, and master’s degrees in English and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Waterloo.