Bangladesh

Dr Kanchana Ruwanpura is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geosciences. While a dual citizen (British-Sri Lanka), as a native of Sri Lanka, Dr. Ruwanpura’s primary focus of research has been on gender, ethnicity and conflict, post-disaster politics, and more recently labour politics, focussing on Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Her…

Dr. Louise Harrington trained in literary, film and cultural studies in Trinity College Dublin and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Alberta in Canada, working on cultural responses to global partitions and ethno-religious conflict. She has conducted fieldwork in…

I am retired professor of anthropology with some 4 years of research experience in Bangladesh between 1966 and 1999. My research interests focused for the most part on rural socio-economic and political organization, requiring me to live in peasant villages and small district headquarter towns for extended periods of time. During my last visit to…

Description: Dina M. Siddiqi, Professor, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University, has extensive work experience with leading human rights organizations in Bangladesh, including Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), and Bangladesh Legal and Services Trust (BLAST). She has consulted for UNDP, UNICEF, and NORAD, among others, focusing primarily on programs related to gender justice…

Chatterji Joya is the Director of the Institute for Modern South Asian History at the University of Cambridge. He is an expert on India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. His research topics are migrants, minorities and citizenship, South Asian history, Muslim migration, secularization, South Asian Diaspora, Refugee in west Bengal and the Bengali Muslims. He authored and…

This NGO produces monthly Human Rights Reports on rights violations in Bangladesh.

Dr Katy Gardner trained in anthropology at Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work has focussed on issues of globalisation, migration and economic change in Bangladesh and its transnational communities in the U.K. Her doctoral research, carried out in the 1980s, examined the transformations associated with overseas migration in a…

Ashraful Azad is a lecturer of International Relations at the University of Chittagong. He is currently pursuing a postgraduate research degree at Monash University School of Law, Australia. Previously, he worked for the UNHCR in Bangladesh as a United Nations Volunteer. He has conducted research and published on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Mr Azad also…