Dr Rasika Jayasuriya has worked for over two decades across the government, multilateral and civil society sectors on policy issues related to migration and human rights. Rasika has held positions as a Policy Specialist with UNICEF’s global Migration and Displacement team and with the UN Network on Migration at IOM-UN Migration in Geneva. She has also worked for the Australian Government on issues related to human trafficking and with the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Victoria (Australia) on migration and refugee policy.
Rasika holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne’s Law School, focusing on temporary labour migration and children’s rights, and was a Doctoral Associate with the global ‘Gender, Migration and the Work of Care’ project at the Centre for Global Social Policy, University of Toronto. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (ANU College of Asia and the Pacific).
Her publications include Children, Human Rights and Temporary Labour Migration: Protecting the Child-Parent Relationship (Routledge, 2021) and ‘The Migration of Women Domestic Workers from Sri Lanka: Protecting the Rights of Children Left Behind’ (2015) 48 Cornell International Law Journal 579.