Dr. Ray Jureidini is Professor of Migration, Human Rights, and Ethics at CILE and the first-of-its-kind Master of Arts program in Applied Islamic Ethics at CIS. He grew up in Australia, completing his studies in industrial and economic sociology at Flinders University, South Australia. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977, majoring in sociology and psychology; First Class Honors in Sociology with a thesis on producer cooperatives; and a PhD thesis on Moral Values in Economic Life: a Case Study of Life Insurance and Superannuation.
In the 1990s, he was Co-founder and Vice-chairman of the Australian Arabic Council, established to counter anti-Arab racism in Australia, as well as Founder and Editor of the Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies. After teaching sociology at five universities in Australia, he spent six years at the American University of Beirut, where he began researching and publishing on human rights abuses of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. At the American University in Cairo, he became Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies and conducted a number of research projects on migrant and refugee issues. In 2011–14, he returned to Lebanon at the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University. In 2012–13, he served one year as consultant to the Migrant Worker Welfare Initiative at Qatar Foundation, contributing to the QF Standards for Migrant Worker Welfare for contractors and sub-contractors and completing a report on labor recruitment to Qatar.
Human Rights, and Ethics, CIS, HBKU
2014 - PresentHuman Rights, and Ethics, CILE
2014 - PresentInstitute for Migrations Studies, Lebanese American University
2011 - 2014Migrant Worker Welfare Initiative, Qatar Foundation, Doha
2012 - 2013Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo
2008 - 2010Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo
2007 - 2008Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo
2006 - 2007Sociology, American University in Cairo
2005 - 2006American University of Beirut
1999 - 2005Department of Sociology, Monash University, Victoria
1996 - 1999Department of Sociology, Deakin University, Victoria
1991 - 1996La Trobe University, Victoria
1989 - 1991Australian National University, Canberra
1987 - 1989Flinders University, South Australia
1981 - 1987Flinders University, South Australia
1987Flinders University, South Australia
1979Flinders University, South Australia
1977Traditional Continuity and Reform.” Jureidini, R. & Hassan, S. (Eds.), Migration and Islamic Ethics. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers.
Global Governance and Muslim Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan. 339-364.
2019In Rajan, S.I., & Saxena, P. (Eds.), India's Unskilled Migration to the Middle East: Policies, Politics and Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan.
2019Migration to the Gulf: Policies in Sending and Receiving Countries. Cambridge: Gulf Migration Research and GLMM. 9-32.
2018Ideas to Inform International Cooperation on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Geneva: International Organization for Migration.
2017Skillful Survivals: Irregular Migration to the Gulf. Cambridge: Gulf Research Center. 135-160.
2017Labour in an Islamic Setting: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.
2017India Migration Report 2016: Gulf Migration. Routledge. 36-47.
2017When Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work. Ashgate.
2014The Migration-Displacement Nexus: Concepts, Cases and Responses. Berghahan Books. 197-215.
2011Doing Without the Boss: Workers’ Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s. Labour History. Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. 103-122.
2012Migrants and Refugees Working as Domestic Workers in Egypt. International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS). 11(1). 75-90.
2009Some Implications for Management and Regulation in Arab Countries. Arab Migration in a Globalized World, Geneva: International Organization for Migration. 201-216.
2004les domestiques étrangers au Liban]. European Review of International Migration [Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales]. 19(3). 95-127.
2003International Migration Papers. 48. Geneva: International Labour Organization. (In English and in Arabic).
2002International Labor Organization White Paper. Beirut: International Labor Organization Regional Office for Arab States.
2016Technical Report. Gulf Labor Markets and Migration (GLMM). Migration Policy Center (European University Institute) & Gulf Research Center (Cambridge).
2014Cartoons and Minarets - Western Depictions of Islam and Muslim Public Protest. Heinrich Boll Stiftung.
2012http://www.drc.dk/fileadmin/uploads/pdf/IA_PDF/Horn_of_Africa_and_Yemen/....
2011http://www.egypt.iom.int/Doc/A%20Study%20on%20Remittances%20and%20Invest...(English).pdf
2010http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/research_reports/Jureidini_Dome...
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