Dr. Sirada Khemanitthathai appointed to the position as an IDRC Research Chair on Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia at Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University.
Dr. Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw is working as a research associate with the Research Chair.
Profiles
Dr. Sirada Khemanitthathai is a lecturer at School of International Affairs, Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University. She also currently serves as a Research Chair on Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia at the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD). She graduated with a PhD in Politics and International Studies from SOAS, University of London. Her research interests include politics of international migration, human rights in International Relations, and contemporary politics of Myanmar. Her ongoing research projects are related to border security at Myanmar-Thailand border after the 2021 coup and internationalization of Myanmar’s political crisis, especially migration from Myanmar.
Dr. Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw, is enthusiastic about rethinking forced displacement, global refugee protection, and governance. He has been working on legal empowerment and refugee leadership in Southeast Asia. His scholarship focuses on law and society, politics and policy, and political philosophy in the field of refugee studies. Currently, he is a research associate working with the Research Chair on Forced Displacement at the Regional Centre for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University. On the one hand, he is a non-residential fellow at the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at the University of Auckland, researching the voices of urban refugees on Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism (NSM). His current writings focus on reimagining pathways of refugee self-settlement and the influence of neoliberal thinking in refugee protection.
Video on Year 3 of the IDRC Research Chairs Network
This video from the third year of the IDRC program which Paula Banerjee and now Sirada Khemanitthathai are both part of.
Further Information
Twelve research chairs to generate locally led knowledge on forced displacement (IDRC Research-in-Action article)
IDRC Research Chairs Network on Forced Displacement Website
Research chairs will anchor knowledge on forced displacement in the Global South (IDRC Research-in-Action article)
RCSD announcement of Dr. Sirada Khemanitthathai’s appointment