Institution:
Instructor and Research Associate, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, FXB Center Program on Distress Migration; Director, FXB Summer Program on Migration and Refugee Rights

Interests:
Distress migration; child migration and protection; human trafficking; sexual exploitation of migrant children; victim blaming; migrant detention and children’s mental health; social and forensic psychology; human rights–based migration policy

Description:
Vasileia Digidiki is a social and forensic psychologist and Instructor at Harvard who leads the FXB Center’s research and training agenda on distress migration, directing both the FXB Program on Distress Migration and the FXB Summer Program on Migration and Refugee Rights. Her work focuses on the protection of migrant and refugee children, human trafficking, and the impacts of exclusionary migration policies, including producing the first worldwide report on child trafficking for the International Organization for Migration and co‑authoring influential studies on unaccompanied minors, migrant detention, and child rights.