Atreyi Bhattacharjee
She/Her
Graduate Academic Assistant (CMS General + Borders Research Group)
Geography and Methods
Thematic Research Area
Borders and Sovereignty | Citizenship | Gender and Migration | History of Migration | Immigration and Refugee Law | Immigration Politics and Policy | Labour Migration | Migration and Race | Refugees and Forced Migration | Settler Colonialism and Decolonization | Undocumented Migration and Statelessness
Student Group
Home Department
About
At its core, my doctoral research concerns the question: ‘Why is a refugee not legally a refugee in Southeast Asia?’
I employ a Feminist- Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) approach and foreground the Rohingya community and their experience as stateless refugees in Southeast Asia to challenge international law and its presumptions around the lack of regional commitment to refugee protection in the region today. I consider how the British colonial project and its border, immigration, and labour management practices continue to stifle refugees in Southeast Asia through the form of international legal structures and institutions.
Awards
Law Foundation of BC Graduate Fellowship Grant 2023