Lahra Smith
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Countries of Expertise
Djibouti | Ethiopia
Specialties
- Caste Discrimination/Persecution
- Deportees/Criminal Deportees
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Ex-Combatant Reintegration
- FGM/FGC
- Forced Conscription
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
- HIV/AIDS
- Land Tenure Dispute
- LGBTQ
- Likelihood Of Destitution/Homelessness
- Mental Illness
- Political Persecution
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Safe Internal Relocation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Lahra Smith
Dr. Lahra Smith is an Associate Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government at Georgetown University and the Director of the African Studies Program. She is a Political Scientist with a particular interest in citizenship, migration and political development in Africa. She is the author of Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender and National Identity in Ethiopia (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and her other publications have focused on the role of political institutions in addressing conflict based largely on ethnic and language identities.
