Lore Roels

Phd researcher

Department of European, Public and International Law

Department of Public Health and Primary Care

Faculty of Law and Criminology

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Lore Roels (she/her) is a doctoral researcher at the Migration Law Research Group (MigrLaw) and the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) at Ghent University. She is a member of the interfaculty Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) at the university and a steering committee member of the international Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) network. Lore is a lawyer specialising in human rights, migration law and gender studies (Master of Law, Ghent University; LL.M. in Human Rights, LSE). Her research analyses the gender sensitivity of asylum procedures and decisions concerning persons who flee sexual and gender-based violence.

Email: Lore.Roels@UGent.be

Research themes:

Migration law, migrants’ rights and legal Identity || Borders, migration governance and people on the move || Health, health care and psychosocial well-being || Discrimination, racism and prejudice

https://www.linkedin.com/in/loreroels/