Margaret is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen Nürnberg (CHREN), Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. She is also a Sessional lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa where she attained a Doctorate in International Relations in 2021. Her Doctoral research focused on the global dynamics associated with refugee governance from an African standpoint by focusing on the ethnographic experiences of Somali refugee women in Nairobi, Kenya. It examined the critical links between Kenya’s securitisation regime, the resultant vulnerabilities it produces, and Somali refugee women’s everyday resistance to the state surveillance and discrimination. Prior to that, she had completed a Masters in International Relations from Moi University, Kenya, where she left with a distinction. She is a versatile, early career researcher and author with skills in execution of academic and policy research projects as well as leadership experience ranging from civil society to academic spheres. Margaret is also a research affiliate with the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), University of London where she doubles as a reviewer of the RLI Working Paper Series