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Ansar, Dr. Anas

Portrait Anas Ansar
Position at ABI:
E-mail:
anas.ansar [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone:
076188878-32
Areas of research:
Borderland Identities, Ambiguity in Migration and Refugee Governance, Gender and Intersectionality, Precarity, Transnationalism, Digital Diaspora, Social Costs of Migration, Climate Change & Displacement
Regional focus:
South and Southeast Asia, Gulf States

 

Focusing on the patchwork of social networks, permeable and ambivalent frontier identity, complex ethnic and religious composition, and persistent cross-border mobility, Anas’s research project at ABI aims to re-center the borderland and frontier dynamics into the mainstream narratives of conflict and displacement in Asian context.

Professional experience:
2019-ongoing
Research Associate, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), University of Bonn, Germany
2023-ongoing
Associate Researcher, Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IOA), ENS de Lyon, France.
2022-2023
Visiting Researcher, Department of Mass Media and Communication Research, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2018-2020
Junior Research Fellow, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
2013-2015
Research Assistant, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Education:
2019-2024
PhD in Migration and Development Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
2015-2017
European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR), University of Oldenburg (DE) & Stavanger, Norway
2012-2013
Master in International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
2010
Diploma in Democracy and New Media, Center for Politics, University of Virginia, USA.
2008-2011
Bachelor in International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

2023

Santander Fellowship, Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO), ENS de Lyon, France 

2022-2023

Swiss Confederate Fellowship, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

2019-2024

German Research Foundation (DFG) Fellowship, University of Bonn, Germany 

2015-2017

Erasmus Mundus Master Degree Fellowship, University of Stavanger, Norway & University of Oldenburg, Germany 

2010

Study in the US Institutes (SUSI) Fellowship, US Department of State, University of Virginia, USA 

2023-2024

Mobility, Translocality and Gendered Violence: Rohingya Women in the Bangladesh–Myanmar borderlands. Supported by the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme, funded by UK International Development.

2017-2020

Social Costs of Migration on left Behind Family Members. Commissioned by Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)

International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE-MITRA)

European Social Science History Conference (Network- Labour & Migration History) 

Erasmus Mundus Association

Bonn Platform for Forced Migration Studies

2024: 

Etzold, B. & Ansar, A. (2024). Geflohne Rohingya in Bangladesch- Wie kann diese langanhaltende Vertreibungskrise gelöst werden?, Report Globale Flucht. 2024. Fischer. Report Globale Flucht 2024 - | S. Fischer Verlage

Ansar, A. & Mitra, J. (2024). Digital Diaspora Activism at the Margins: Unfolding Rohingya Diaspora Interactions on Facebook (2017-2022). Social Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241228603 

Ansar, A. & Hunger, U. (2024). Remote Data Collection in Low-resource settings: Doing Research with the Rohingya Community in Bangladesh Refugee Camps. SAGE Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529681222 

2023:

Ansar, A. & Khaled, A. F. M. (2023). In search of a Rohingya digital diaspora: virtual togetherness, collective identities and political mobilisation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications10(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01553-w

Khaled, A. F. M., & Ansar, A. (2023). Bangladesh's ready-made garments sector rebound: Revisiting gendered labor precarity and dependency. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911231170208 

2022:

Ansar, A. (2022). Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration. Global Networks23(1), 31-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12368

Rashid, S. R., Ansar, A., & Khaled, A. F.M. (2022). “The pandemic has added to my miseries”: Bangladeshi migrant workers’ social protection revisited. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/20578911221141759

Ansar, A. & Khaled, A.F.M. (2022). Claiming Space and Contesting Gendered Refugeehood in Exile: Issues and factors of Rohingya refugee Women’s Civic Engagement in Diaspora. International Quarterly for Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2022.2.14712

2021:

Ansar, A. & Khaled, A.F.M. (2021). From solidarity to resistance: host communities’ evolving response to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Journal of International Humanitarian Action. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-021-00104-9 

2020: 

Ansar, A. (2020), The Unfolding of Belonging, Exclusion and Exile: A Reflection on the History of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Southeast Asia. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. September, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2020.1819126

2017:

Ansar, A. et al., (2017), Challenges in access to health care among involuntary migrants in Germany: a case study of migrants’ experiences in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony. Journal of International Migration, February, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12326