Profile
Sara Lembrechts is a PhD researcher at the Migration Law Research Group at Ghent University. She studies the position of children, young people and families in appellate asylum proceedings in Belgium, using a multidisciplinary approach of legal ethnography. Sara has a Master’s in Children’s Rights and Childhood Studies (FU Berlin), an LLM in International Laws (Maastricht University) and a Bachelor in European Studies (Maastricht University). She has worked as a researcher and policy advisor for the Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre and was involved in several research projects about children’s rights and child abduction.