Background
Benjamin Lawrance was born in York, England, and emigrated to Australia as a child.
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Benjamin Lawrance
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He attended Barker College for high school.
Career
He is currently the Honorary Barber B. Conable, Junior. Endowed Professor of International Studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
He works on comparative and contemporary slavery and trafficking, citizenship, human rights, and the law of asylum and refugees.
He returned to the United Kingdom for undergraduate and graduate education at University College London. He moved to the United States.A. for graduate study in 1996 at Stanford University.
After graduate school he taught at several institutions, including Stanford University, the University of San Francisco, California State University at San Bernardino, and the University of California, Davis. He is currently the Honorary
Barber B. Conable, Junior.
Endowed Professor of International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, a position which honors, Barber Conable. He is a citizen of the United States., the United Kingdom, and Australia. He serves on the Advisory Board of PROTECT: the National Association for the Protection of Children.
With Jacqueline Stevens, Lawrance is currently exploring the experiences of individuals who cannot prove their citizenship or identity.
Lawrance regularly serves as a legal consultant on the contemporary political, social and cultural climate in West Africa for ongoing immigration matters. He has served as an expert witness for over two hundred asylum claims of West Africans, including many from Togo.
He has been an expert in different national jurisdictions, including the United States., Canada, the Netherlands, the U.K, Israel, Hong Kong, and South of Korea, and his opinions have featured in several appellate rulings in the United States. and rulings from the Queen's Bench in the United Kingdom
He is an Editor for CIHA Blog, Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa.
