The department’s faculty specialises in the following Research Areas.
The findings of the research project ‘Protracted Displacement Economies’ by Dr. Shahida Aman, Dr. Abdul Rauf, and Dr. Ayub Jan are now published in a book titled ‘Refugees in a world without aid’.
Building upon research from the Protracted Displacement Economies project led by the University of Sussex, UK, this book emphasizes the necessity of adopting a multifaceted approach to refugee and displacement economies. Following chapters on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Myanmar, and Pakistan, the book delineates a series of characteristics that constitute a novel political economy of displacement.
Dr Abida Bano’s paper is published in a prestigious journal, ‘Contemporary South Asia’
Bano, A., & Ruby, T. F. (2025). Drone attacks and non-grievable lives: erasure of collateral damage in the Northwestern borderlands of Pakistan. Contemporary South Asia, 1–18.
Dr Shahida Aman and Dr Ayub Jan have joined the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) and participated in their annual conference held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in January 2025. They presented their work at the conference. A generous travel grant from the BASIC project covered their participation in the conference.
Faculty members from the Migration Research Cell, Dr Shahida Aman and Dr Ayub Jan, in collaboration with colleagues from Europe and Pakistan, have pioneered Pakistan’s Migration Research Network. The network is the first of its kind in the country and will offer a platform to diverse stakeholders to engage with issues related to migration in Pakistan.
