Zahra Babar
Zahra R. Babar is Associate Director for Research at the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar. She has published several articles and book chapters, including most recently: "The 2022 World Cup and Migrants' Rights in Qatar: Raciaised Labour Hierarchies and the Influence of Racial Capitalism," with N. Vora, in The Political Quarterly (2022), "Qatar, the World Cup, and the Global Campaign for Migrant Workers' Rights," in Football in the Middle East: State Society and the Beautiful Game, Ed. Abdullah Al Arian (Hurst/OUP 2022), “Improving the evidence on health inequities in migrant construction workers preparing for big sporting events,” with Andreas Flouris et al., BMJ, (2021), 374, 1615; “Health and social needs of migrant construction workers for big sporting events.”, with Kritine Onarheim et al., BMJ, (2021): 374, 1591; “Skilled migration to emerging economies: the global competition for talent beyond the West.” with M. Ewers and N. Khattab, Globalizations (2021); “Economic Migrants and Citizenship in the GCC,” in The Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa, Eds. R. Meijer, J. Sater, and Z. R. Babar, (2021); “The Vagaries of the In-between: Labor Citizenship in the Persian Gulf,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, (2020); “Purveyors of Dreams: Labour Recruiters in the Pakistan to Saudi Arabia Migration Corridor," Migration and Development, (2020); “Labor Migration in the Persian Gulf”, in The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics, (Routledge, 2020); “Migrant labor and human rights in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries”, in Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary Global Affairs, (Routledge, 2020); “Understanding Labour Migration Policies in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries" in Asianization of Migrant Workers in the Gulf Countries, (Springer, 2020); "Gender and Mobility: Qatar’s Highly Skilled Female Migrants in Context," with M. Ewers and N. Khattab, Migration and Development, (2020); and “Im/mobile Highly Skilled Migrants in Qatar,” with M. Ewers and N. Khattab, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2019).
She served as editor for the volume, Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East (Oxford University Press 2020), editor of the volume Arab Migrant Communities in the GCC (Oxford University Press 2017), co-editor with R. Meijer and J. Sater of The Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge, 2021), and co-editor with M. Kamrava, Migrant Labour in the Persian Gulf (Columbia University Press/Hurst 2012).