Christine Ho has been a migration scholar for many years. An exemplar of her work is Humane Migration: Establishing Legitimacy and Rights for Displaced People (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012), co-authored with James Loucky, which argues for more humane migration policies.

Currently, Christine is a practicing anthropologist, with a focus on ameliorating conditions inside immigrant prisons in the US, aka American Gulags.

Christine is Founding Director of an NGO called Friends of Broward Detainees (FBD) whose primary mission is to provide humanitarian support for asylum seekers and unauthorized immigrants unjustly incarcerated in Broward Transitional Center, an immigrant prison in South Florida. A secondary goal is to find them legal representation and sponsorship in their struggle for asylum and fight against deportation.

Christine’s organization is partnered with an array of immigrant rights organizations and law firms, at the local, state and national levels. Christine has also testified at U.S. Congressional Hearings about appalling conditions in immigrant prisons.

Christine is also Professor Emerita at Fielding Graduate University where she taught Diversity; International Migration; Globalization; as well as Human Rights and Social Justice. She received the Fielding Social Justice Award in 2013.