Doctoral Student/Adjunct Professor/Research Assistant
University of Connecticut School of Social Work
Fizza Saghir is a PhD student, researcher, adjunct professor, and international social worker at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Her research interests and areas of work include human rights, forced migration, war and politics, international social work, refugee rights, Islamophobia, and peacebuilding. She has been teaching multiple courses to MSW and BSW students including macro foundation practice, social welfare policy, and Holocaust and genocides and implications for social work practice. She also teaches several topics in international social work and human rights, as a guest lecturer. She continues to work with different war and genocide-survivors and forcibly displaced refugee populations, globally such as Karen refugees from Myanmar, Ukrainian refugees in Bulgaria, and Afghan and Rohingya refugees settled in India.
Previously, as Chief Minister’s Fellow in the Government of Delhi, she has handled significant managerial responsibilities in Delhi Government’s flagship projects covering multiple dimensions of child rights—education, health, violence, and abuse. From training and capacity-building of adolescents in the urban slums to advocacy for rights of domestic workers and from working on sexual and gender-based violence to engaging in community awareness on child abuse, she has experience of working with several vulnerable populations and marginalized communities.
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