Mit Schwerpunkt auf dem Geflecht sozialer Netzwerke, einer durchlässigen und ambivalenten Grenzidentität, der komplexen ethnischen und religiösen Zusammensetzung und der anhaltenden grenzüberschreitenden Mobilität zielt Anas Ansars Forschungsprojekt am ABI darauf ab, die Dynamik des Grenzlandes und der Grenze wieder in den Mittelpunkt der gängigen Erzählungen über Konflikte und Vertreibung im asiatischen Kontext zu stellen.
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 Communications, 10(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 Networks, 23(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