Research

Dissertation Project

My PhD dissertation project investigates how indebtedness and its normalisation in migrant-sending states produces precarity for labour migrants. My case study is on Bangladesh, which sends approximately a million migrant workers abroad each year, particularly to the Gulf region. Bangladeshi migrant workers generally labour in highly precarious sectors such as construction and domestic work. While the migrant-monitoring mechanism in the Gulf, the kafala system, enables exploitative working and living conditions for migrant workers, my project probes how financial, social, visible, and hidden forms of indebtedness produced through the sending state's migration governance regime reproduces a precarious migrant labour force.

Writing

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2023–Ongoing
PhD in Political Science
York University, Canada
Core Areas: Comparative Politics, Gender and Politics
Supervisor: Prof. Leah F. Vosko
2021–2022
Master of Arts in Political Science
York University, Canada
MRP: Co-Production of Migrant Precariousness by Sending and Receiving States: The Case of Bangladeshi Migrant Workers in the Gulf Region
Supervisor: Prof. Leah F. Vosko
2015–2019
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Global Development and Economics
Queen’s University, Canada

Awards & Funding

2026
Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000)
2023–2026
SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral Award (CGS—D) ($105,000)
2023–2028
York University Graduate Fellowship – Doctoral ($120,000)
2023
Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($10,000) *Declined, accepted SSHRC CGS—D
2021
York University Graduate Fellowship – Master’s ($10,000)
2016
Mehran Bibi Sheikh Memorial Scholarship ($1,500)
2015
Queen’s University Principal’s Scholarship ($4,000)

Publications

2025
No Fair Play Under Occupation: FIFA’s Neutrality Amidst Israel’s Genocide in Palestine
Socialist Project, Canada. October 14, 2025 [Co-authored with Nibras K. Chowdhury]
2025
Labour rights at the centre: Bangladeshi migrant workers and the 2034 FIFA World Cup in Saudi Arabia
The Business Standard Newspaper, Bangladesh. December 24, 2024
2023
From 'Act' to 'Action': Protecting migrant workers through the Overseas Employment and Migrants Act
The Business Standard Newspaper, Bangladesh. March 29, 2023
2022
2022 FIFA World Cup: Lest we forget those who make it possible
The Business Standard Newspaper, Bangladesh. November 15, 2022

Presentations & Talks

2025
Debt as Discipline: Loan-Based Indebtedness, Work-Based Indebtedness, and the Gendered Precarity of Bangladeshi Migrant Workers
International Political Science Association World Congress. Seoul, Korea. 16 July, 2025
2025
[Invited Talk] Migrant Precarity and the Role of Sending States: The Case of Bangladesh and India
Invited Talk. School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University. Kerala, India. 20 June 2025
2025
[Guest Lecturer] Gender, Work, and Social Reproduction
WS202: Women and Gender in Canada. Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.
2025
Automated Precarity: How Automated Systems and PGWP Reform Reshape Canada’s Educational Migration Pathways
Co-Presenter. Global Labour Research Centre Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour. Toronto, Canada. October 15, 2021
2025
Co-Production of Migrant Precariousness by Sending and Receiving States: The Case of Bangladeshi Migrant Workers in the Gulf Region
International Studies Association Annual Convention. Chicago, USA. March 3, 2025
2022
Kicking Away Rights: A Critique of the Positive Spotlight on Qatar’s Reform of the Kafala System before FIFA World Cup 2022
Centre for Refugee Studies Conference. Toronto, Canada. March 4, 2022
2021
The Costs of Discussing Only the Benefits: A Critique of the Celebratory Narrative of the 2022 Qatar World Cup
Global Labour Research Centre Graduate Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour. Toronto, Canada. October 15, 2021

Research Experience

2022—Ongoing
Research Assistantship
Dr Leah F. Vosko, Department of Politics, York University, Canada
International mobility programmes in settler colonial states
2021
Research Assistantship
Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh
Assessing the state of good governance in the implementation of public infrastructure projects in Bangladesh using the OECD Good Governance Framework
2019
Research Assistantship/Translator
Dr Sarah E. Sharma, Department of Political Science, Queen’s University, Canada
“Governing Urban Flooding in Global Capitalism: The Relational International Political Economy and Environment of Climate Resilience in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Dhaka, Bangladesh”
2018—2019
Research Assistantship/Transcriber
Dr Marcus Taylor, Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Canada
“Rice Policies, Food Security and the Agriculture-Development Nexus in Asia” (SSHRC Insight Grant)
2018
Visiting Researcher/Case Study Lead
Agriculture and Food Security Programme, BRAC, Bangladesh
“A Case Study on Modern Rice Farming in Bangladesh: Farmers’ Perceptions in Rangpur and Khulna”

Teaching Experience

2024—Ongoing
POLS 2600: Introduction to Gender and Politics
Department of Politics, York University, Canada
Teaching Assistant
2023—2024
HREQ 1710: Globalisation and the Human Condition
Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
Teaching Assistant

Community Service

2022—2023
Essay Review Tutor
Paper Co., Canada
2022
Mentor/Research Lead
Bangladeshi-Canadian Community Services, Canada
2022
Essay Competition Judge – Senior Category
Commonwealth Essay Competition, United Kingdom
2021—2022
Editorial Board Member
Federalism-E Journal, Canada

University Service

2023—2025
Equity and Accessibility Committee Coordinator
Department of Politics, York University, Canada
2023—2024
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Steward
Department of Politics, York University, Canada
2023—2024
Master’s Applications Adjudication Committee
Department of Politics, York University, Canada
2021—2022
Graduate Student Council Representative
Department of Politics, York University, Canada
2018—2019
Student Council Co-President
Department of Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Canada
2018—2019
Peer Support Coordinator for Incoming Refugee Students
World University Services Canada – Queen’s University, Canada
2017—2018
Academic Resources and Relations Coordinator
Department of Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Canada

Associations

2023—Ongoing
International Studies Association (ISA)
Connecticut, USA
ISA Membership, Global South Caucus Membership
2023—Ongoing
Graduate Student Associate
York Centre for Asian Studies, York University, Canada
2021—Ongoing
Graduate Student Associate
Global Labour Research Centre, York University, Canada

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