Kauther Alhusainy

Kauther Alhusainy is a fellow in Refugees International’s Refugee Fellows Program. She has worked across legal, humanitarian, and policy settings with organisations including UN Women, UNICEF, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and has held fellowships with Statefree e.V. and Humanity in Action. Her legal advocacy focuses on the racialised impacts of European migration and citizenship regimes.

Kauther holds an LLM in Law & Gender and a LLB from SOAS University of London and is a DPhil candidate in Law at the University of Oxford, where her research explores structural racism in German citizenship law through court ethnography and critical race theory. Her work interrogates how legal procedures governing the acquisition and revocation of citizenship construct national identity and shape racialised notions of belonging in contemporary Europe, drawing on postcolonial and feminist legal methodologies.

As part of her ongoing commitment to interdisciplinary and decolonial legal scholarship, she recently contributed to the Decolonising EU Law project at Oxford and served as a legal lead for the People’s Tribunal on the Systematic Targeting of Women Activists in Sudan, where she examined the selectivity of international law through the lenses of race, gender, and armed conflict.

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