Middle East and North Africa

Thomas McGee is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of legal and social studies of the Middle East and North Africa. He is currently a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute, and completed his PhD on “Syria’s Changing Statelessness Landscape: 2011 as Critical Juncture” at Melbourne Law School’s Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness. Thomas has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Thomas is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and holds a Masters in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter. Thomas speaks Arabic and Kurdish, and has engaged in practitioner work responding to forced displacement with UNHCR and other humanitarian actors (mostly in the Middle East region). He has also served as the Co-Coordinator of the MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati) and has previously published on a wide variety of topics (law, human rights, conflict and security, migration and displacement, governance, statelessness and citizenship) in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration Review, the Tilburg Law Review, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Citizenship Studies, Genocide Studies International, Statelessness & Citizenship Review (For more on Thomas’ publications, see his Google Scholar profile). Currently, Thomas is developing his PhD for publication as a monograph.