Elżbieta M. Goździak is both a migration scholar and a forced migrant. She left her native Poland in 1984 with a one-way passport. Currently, she is Visiting Professor at the Center for Migration Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna, Poland and Research Professor at the OsloMet University in Oslo, Norway. She is also CSJ Fellow for Refugee Engaged Scholarship at Georgetown University. She teaches as an Ajunct professor in STIA and CULP. She was Research Professor at ISIM in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (2002-2018). In the Fall of 2016 she served as the George Soros Visiting Chair in Public Policy at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Formerly, she was Editor-in-Chief of International Migration and held a senior position with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the US Department of Health and Human Services. She taught at Howard University in the Social Work with Displaced Populations Program and managed a program area on admissions and resettlement of refugees in industrialized countries for the Refugee Policy Group. Her research agenda focuses on refugee and immigrant integration, global health and humanitarianism, child migration, and human trafficking.
