Dr. Emily A. Lynch is a cultural anthropologist and consultant with extensive experience conducting research on the Great Lakes region of East Africa, specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Her ethnographic areas of expertise focus on the everyday experience of refugees and forced migration, humanitarian intervention and settings, protracted conflict and displacement, resettlement systems, repatriation networks, trauma and resilience, and genocide. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and B.A. from Earlham College.
Coercive population control, Deportees/criminal deportees, Disability, Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Ex-combatant reintegration, Gang-related violence/non-state actors, Gender-based violence/domestic violence, Healthcare access/health systems capacity, HIV/AIDS, Land tenure disputes, LGBTQ, Mental illness, Military/police service, Political persecution, Government/state actor persecution, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Sexual abuse/assault, Sufficiency of protection, Tribal discrimination or persecution