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Megan Bradley

Academic title(s): 

Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar

Megan Bradley
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Phone: 
514-398-6659
Email address: 
megan.bradley [at] mcgill.ca
Position: 
Associate Professor, Political Science and Institute for the Study of International Development
Office: 
Leacock 539
Degree(s): 

DPhil (PhD), Oxford

Curriculum vitae: 
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Link(s): 
Personal website
Research areas: 
International Relations
Areas of interest: 

Refugees and forced migration, human rights, transitional justice, humanitarianism, disasters, peacebuilding, international organizations, international development

Selected publications: 

Books

  • Megan Bradley (2013) Refugee Repatriation: Justice, Responsibility and Redress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Megan Bradley, ed. (2015) Forced Migration, Reconciliation and Justice. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.

  • Megan Bradley, Ibrahim Fraihat and Houda Mzioudet (2016) Libya’s Displacement Crisis: Uprooted by Revolution and Civil War. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press (digital shorts series).
  • Megan Bradley, James Milner and Blair Peruniak (eds.) (2019) Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
  • Megan Bradley (2020) The International Organization for Migration: Commitments, Challenges, Complexities, London: Routledge.
  • Megan Bradley, Cathryn Costello and Angela Sherwood, eds  (forthcoming, 2022) IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Special issues

  • Co-editor (with Roger Duthie) of special issue of Journal of Refugee Studies on “Accountability and redress for the injustices of displacement” (2014).

Articles

  • Megan Bradley (2021) “Realizing the Right of Return: Refugees’ Roles in Localizing Norms and Socializing UNHCR,” Geopolitics (advanced access).

  • Mohamed Sesay and Megan Bradley (2021) “‘When the Ground Opened’: Responsibility for Harms and Rights Violations in Disasters – Insights from Sierra Leone,” Journal of Human Rights (advanced access).

  • Megan Bradley (2021) “Joining the UN Family? Explaining the Evolution of IOM-UN Relations,” Global Governance 27(2): 251-274.

  • Megan Bradley (2019) “Unresolved and Unresolvable? Tensions in the Refugee Regime,” Ethics and International Affairs 33(1): 45-56.

  • Megan Bradley (2018) “Durable Solutions and the Right of Return for Internally Displaced Persons: Evolving Interpretations,” International Journal of Refugee Law (special issue commemorating the 20th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement).

  • Megan Bradley (2017) “More than Misfortune: Recognizing Natural Disasters as a Concern for Transitional Justice,” International Journal of Transitional Justice 11(3) 400-420.

  • Megan Bradley (2017) “The International Organization for Migration (IOM): Gaining Power in the Forced Migration Regime,” Refuge 33(1): 91-106.

  • Megan Bradley, Angela Sherwood, Lorenza Rossi, Rufa Guiam and Bradley Mellicker (2017) “Researching the Resolution of Post-Disaster Displacement: Reflections from Haiti and the Philippines,” Journal of Refugee Studies 30(3): 363-386. 

  • Megan Bradley (2014) “Rethinking refugeehood: Statelessness, repatriation and refugee agency”, Review of International Studies 40(1).

  • Megan Bradley and Roger Duthie (2014) “Introduction: Accountability and redress for the injustices of displacement”, Journal of Refugee Studies 27(2).

  • Mike Asplet and Megan Bradley (2013) “Introductory Note to the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention)”, International Legal Materials 51(1).

  • Megan Bradley (2013) “Defining success in refugee repatriation”, World Politics Review, 3 December 2013.

  • Megan Bradley (2012) “‘Migrants in a feverland’: State obligations towards ‘environmental refugees’”, International Journal of Political Theory 8 (1-2).

  • Mike Asplet and Megan Bradley (2012) “Strengthened protection for internally displaced persons in Africa: The Kampala Convention comes into force”, American Society of International Law (ASIL) Insights 16(36).

  • Megan Bradley  (2011) “Unlocking protracted displacement: Central America’s ‘success story’ reconsidered”, Refugee Survey Quarterly 30(4).

  • Roberta Cohen and Megan Bradley (2010) “Disasters and displacement: Gaps in protection”, Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies 1(1).

  • Megan Bradley (2009) “Return in dignity: A neglected refugee protection challenge”, Canadian Journal of Development Studies 28(3).

  • Megan Bradley (2009) “Obstacles to realising Guiding Principle 29 in Afghanistan”, Forced Migration Review (Special Edition).

  • Megan Bradley (2008) “Back to basics: The conditions of just refugee returns”, Journal of Refugee Studies 21(3).

  • Megan Bradley (2008) “On the agenda: North-South research partnerships and agenda-setting processes” (lead article), Development in Practice 18(6).

  • Megan Bradley (2007) “Redress and refugees: Reflections on some recent literature” (review essay), Journal of Refugee Studies 20(4).

  • Megan Bradley (2007) “Refugee research agendas: The influence of donors and North-South partnerships”, Refugee Survey Quarterly 26(3).

Book chapters

  • Megan Bradley (forthcoming) “IOM’s Mandate Evolution: Accountability to Whom, and For What?” in Megan Bradley, Cathryn Costello and Angela Sherwood (eds.) IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Angela Sherwood and Angela Sherwood (forthcoming) “Holding IOM to Account: The Role of Human Rights NGOs,” in Megan Bradley, Cathryn Costello and Angela Sherwood (eds.) IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Megan Bradley (2021) “Redress for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Restitution, Compensation and Other Remedies,” in Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Megan Bradley (2020) “Is Return the Preferred Solution to Refugee Crises?,” in David Miller and Christine Straehle (eds.) The Political Philosophy of Refuge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Megan Bradley and Cate Duin (2020) “A Port in the Storm: Resettlement and Private Sponsorship in the Broader Context of the Refugee Regime,” in Shauna Labman and Geoff Cameron (eds.) Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

  • Megan Bradley, James Milner and Blair Peruniak (2019) “Shaping the Struggles of their Times: Refugees, Peacebuilding and Resolving Displacement,” in Megan Bradley, James Milner and Blair Peruniak (eds.) Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

  • James Milner, Megan Bradley and Blair Peruniak (2019) “Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here?” in Megan Bradley, James Milner and Blair Peruniak (eds.) Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

  • Megan Bradley (2017) “Whose agenda? Power and priorities in North-South research partnerships”, in L. Mougeot (ed.) Civil society in research for development, Ottawa: IDRC.

  • Megan Bradley and Angela Sherwood (2016) “Addressing and Resolving Internal Displacement: Reflections on a Soft Law ‘Success Story,’” in T. Gammeltoft-Hansen, S. Lagoutte and J. Cerone (eds.) Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 155-182. 

  • Megan Bradley (2015) “Introduction: The troubled intersection of forced migration, justice and reconciliation,” in M. Bradley (ed.) Forced Migration, Reconciliation and Justice, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

  • Megan Bradley (2015) “Advancing the agenda: Implications for research, policy and practice,” in M. Bradley (ed.) Forced Migration, Reconciliation and Justice, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

  • Megan Bradley (2014) “Displacement in Central America and the Caribbean: Cooperation and Challenges”, in E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, G. Loescher, K. Long and N. Sigona (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Megan Bradley (2013) “Liberal Democracies’ Divergent Interpretations of the Right of Return: Implications for Free Movement”, in W. Maas (ed.) Democratic Citizenship and the Free Movement of People, Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff.

  • Megan Bradley and Roberta Cohen (2013) “Disasters, Displacement and Protection: Challenges, Shortcomings and Ways Forward”, in T. Faist and J. Schade (eds.) Disentangling Migration and Climate Change: Methodologies, Political Discourses and Human Rights, New York: Springer.

  • Megan Bradley (2013) “Redressing internally displaced Palestinians in Israel”, in R. Brynen and R. El-Rifai (eds.) Compensation to Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace, London: Pluto Press.

  • Megan Bradley (2013) “Gender dimensions of redress for the Palestinian refugees”, in R. Brynen and R. El-Rifai (eds.) Compensation to Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace, London: Pluto Press.

  • Megan Bradley (2012) “Truth-telling and displacement: Patterns and prospects”, in R. Duthie (ed.) Displacement and Transitional Justice, New York: SSRC.

  • Megan Bradley (2011) “Reparations”, in G. Kurian, et al. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Political Science, Washington, D.C.: CQ Press (Sage Publications).

  • Megan Bradley, J.M. Labatut and G. Morin-Labatut (2008) “L’aide canadienne à la recherche pour le développement” (“Canadian aid for research for development”), in F. Audet, M. Desrosiers and S. Roussel (eds.) L’aide canadienne au développement, Montreal: University of Montreal Press.

Other publications

  • Megan Bradley (2019) “Resolving Refugee Situations: Seeking Solutions Worthy of the Name,” Waterloo: Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
  • Angela Sherwood, Megan Bradley, Rufa Guiam, Lorenza Rossi and Bradley Mellicker (2015) Resolving Post- Disaster Displacement: Insights from the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), Washington, DC: Brookings Institution/International Organization for Migration.
  • Angela Sherwood, Megan Bradley, Lorenza Rossi, Rosalia Gitau and Bradley Mellicker (2014) Supporting durable solutions to urban, post-disaster displacement: Challenge and opportunities in Haiti, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution/International Organization for Migration.
  • Megan Bradley (2012) Displacement, transitional justice and reconciliation: Assumptions, challenges and lessons, University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre Policy Briefing 9.
  • Megan Bradley, Roger Duthie and Bryce Campbell (2012) Transitional Justice and Displacement: Challenges and Recommendations, Washington, DC/New York: Brookings Institution/International Center for Transitional Justice.
Courses: 

INTD 497—Refugees and Forced Migration: Rights and Responsibilities

INTD 497—Transitional Justice

POLI 353—Politics of the International Refugee Regime

POLI 448—Gender and International Relations

 

Group: 
Associate Professor
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