Lore Roels
Migration Law Research Group , Faculty of Law and Criminology
International Centre for Reproductive Health , Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Email: Lore.Roels@UGent.be
Research themes: Migration law, migrants’ rights and legal Identity || Health, health care and psychosocial well-being || Borders, migration governance and people on the move || Discrimination, racism and prejudice
Lore Roels (she/her) is a PhD researcher (FWO) within the Migration Law Research Group and the Gender & Violence Team in the International Centre for Reproductive Health at Ghent University. She is a member of the University’s interfaculty Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) and the Human Rights Centre (HRC), as well as of the Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) Network at the UWE Bristol. She holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws degree from Ghent University, as well as an LLM degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she specialised in asylum law, gender studies and human rights. During her studies, Lore interned for two sexual and reproductive rights NGOs in Uganda (UYAHF and The Suubi Centre), the University Centre for Development Cooperation (UCOS), law firm Justis Lawyers Group, the Belgian Council for Alien Law Litigation and Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen.
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