Dacia Douhaibi

Dacia Douhaibi is a third year doctoral student in the Geography Department at York University, studying the linkages between large scale development, land grabs, forced displacement and process of territorialization. This year, Dacia will be in South Sudan on fieldwork for her dissertation. Her project will identify the current scale of land acquisitions in South Sudan and the nature of the impact of changing land control arrangements on community land use systems. Dacia holds an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology at the University of Victoria. Between these degrees, Dacia also worked on several community development projects in Asia, Central America, and Africa. Currently, Dacia sits on the board of the Canadian based charitable organization, Vulnerable Children’s Society, which partners with Ethiopian NGOs to support children through health and educational challenges. Dacia is also the co-chair of the Cetnre for Refugee Studies Student Caucus, works as a research assistant for the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project, and coordinates a mentorship program that links peer mentors across the world with students in the Dadaab refugee camps.

Contact: ddouhaibi@gmail.com; douhaibi@yorku.ca