Noora Lori is a research fellow at the Dubai Initiative of the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Politics and a George Owen Fellow (2006-2009) and James Hart Fellow (2011-2012) at the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
Prior to joining the Dubai Initiative, she conducted her dissertation field research in Dubai as a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Faculty member of the Dubai School of Government (Spring 2010- Spring 2011). She is a Bucerius Fellow and recipient of a 'Settling into Motion' dissertation scholarship on migration studies granted by ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, Germany.
Lori's research focuses on identifying forms of interaction between immigration and racism, and their combined effect upon how state and non-state actors shape citizenship laws and practices. She also explores the relationship between immigration and political and economic development, probing especially the interaction between varieties of capitalism and migration regimes.
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