The Statelessness Asia-Pacific (SAP) Research Network is a multi-disciplinary network of researchers working on statelessness issues in the Asia Pacific region.
Activated in February 2024, the SAP Research Network provides a platform for researchers to share and showcase their work and aims to encourage research collaboration.
The network meets online on a quarterly basis to come together as a research community to discuss common research related themes and issues such as research impact, multidisciplinary approaches, and inclusion of those with lived experience in the research process.
As of this year, the SAP Research Network also includes the Refugees, Citizenship & Statelessness: Asia in Focus Seminar Series.
The next meeting of the network will take place later this year (date TBC). For enquiries or to join the network, please email law-statelessness@unimelb.edu.au.
SAP Research Network Members
| Name | Country of Residence | Position | Institution | Key Areas of Research | Key Countries or Region of Research | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenna Biedscheid | jenna.biedscheid@fulbrightmail.org | United States | Coalition Coordinator | Nationality For All | Mapping statelessness in all countries of the Asia-Pacific, Digital ID and its impacts on stateless people | Asia Pacific (regional) |
| Mohsin Alam Bhat | m.bhat@qmul.ac.uk | United Kingdom India | Queen Mary University of London, School of Law; Parichay - Legal Aid Clinic India | Minority Rights, Public Law, Discrimination | India South Asia | |
| Ishika Chatterjee | ishika.chatterjee@student.unimelb.edu.au | Australia | PhD candidate | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Borderlands, displacement, citizenship | India/South Asia |
| Lara Chen Tien-shi | lara@waseda.jp | Japan | Founder Professor | Stateless Network Japan Waseda University | Migration, Identity of Stateless people | Japan Taiwan Malaysia |
| Chuah Ee Chia | eechia@iskul.my | Malaysia | Chairperson | Iskul Sama diLaut Omadal | Statelessness, Sama diLaut, Bajau Laut, Stateless semi-sea nomadic children | Malaysia |
| Michelle Foster | law-statelessness@unimelb.edu.au | Australia | Professor | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Australia | |
| Hannah Gordon | gordon.h@unimelb.edu.au | Australia | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Asia-Pacific Australia | ||
| Radha Govil | law-statelessness@unimelb.edu.au | Australia | Deputy Director | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Statelessness and Climate Change, Legal Identity, Minority Rights and Discrimination, Statelessness and Poverty | Global |
| Tristan Harley | t.harley@unsw.edu.au | Australia | Senior Research Associate | Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney | Statelessness and participation | Asia Pacific |
| M Sanjeeb Hossain | sanjeeb.hossain@bracu.ac.bd | Bangladesh | Director, Research | Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University | Rohingya refugees | Bangladesh |
| Andrea Marilyn Pragashini Immanuel | a.immanuel@latrobe.edu.au | Australia | Lecturer | La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University | Nationality and Statelessness in Armed Conflict, Statelessness in India, Legal Identity Documents, The Right to Nationality, Refugee Law | Global, India, areas of ongoing armed conflict situations |
| Humera Iqbal | h.iqbal1@ucl.ac.uk | UK | Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Psychology | University College London (Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Social Research Institute) | In relation to statelessness: Families, Children and Young people, Migration, Minority Rights and activism, Citizenship, Mental Health, Identity, Film and Arts based research | UK Pakistan |
| Raymond Hyma | raymond.hyma@monash.edu | Australia United Kingdom | PhD Candidate | Monash University University of Warwick | Participatory methods, Action research, Conflict transformation, Minorities | Southeast Asia |
| Mai Kaneko-Iwase | mai.kaneko@maastrichtuniversity.nl | Netherlands | Researcher | Maastricht University School of Law | Nationality of foundlings/children of unknown parents | Spain, Italy and Japan |
| Simraatraj Kaur | simraatrajkaur@gmail.com | Malaysia | Head of the Social Policy & Human Rights Unit | Bait Al Amanah | Childhood statelessness, Statelessness and development, Citizenship and nationality laws, Forced migration | Asia Pacific |
| Kaveri | kaveri.urmil@yahoo.com | India | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India | Conflict, displacement, and forced migration Statelessness, citizenship, and (im)mobilities Identity politics, race, and religion in migration Comparative migration governance and policy Human rights and humanitarianism The politics of humanitarian aid and intervention The geopolitics of displacement and migration | South and South East Asia | |
| Tual Sawn Khai | tualsawnkhai@gmail.com khaitualsawn@ln.edu.hk | Hong Kong | Lingnan University, Hong Kong | Migration, Statelessness, Ethnic Minority Rights, Social epidemiology, Social Policy | Myanmar Thailand Malaysia India Hong Kong Singapore | |
| Chulhyo Kim | chulhyo.kim@gnu.ac.kr | South Korea | Gyeongsang National University | Birth registration, Migrant rights | South Korea | |
| Susan Kneebone | susan.kneebone@unimelb.edu.au | Australia | Affiliated Researcher | Melbourne Law School Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Gender and Statelessness, Marriage Migration and Statelessness, Children and Statelessness, History of Nationality | Asia including East and Southeast |
| Aung Ko Ko | ako@mosaicmm.org | Thailand | Executive Director | Mosaic Myanmar | Minority Inclusion, Citizenship in Myanmar, Displacement | Myanmar Thailand |
| Nyi Nyi Kyaw | nnkster@gmail.com | Thailand | Chiang Mai University | Citizenship, Minority Rights, Nationalism, Race, Religion and Statelessness | Myanmar Thailand | |
| Hélène Lambert | helenel@unimelb.edu.au | Australia | Professor and Director | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | International treaties, statelessness law, refugee law, stateless refugees | World |
| Guofu Liu | australia2030@163.com | China (Beijing) | Faculty of Law, Beijing Institution of Technology | Migration law, Refugee law, Nationality law, Diaspora law, China | China | |
| Anne Maureen B Manigbas | am.manigbas@gmail.com amanigbas.snap@gmail.com | The Phillippines | Ateneo de Manila University - School of Law | The Phillippines | ||
| Subin Mulmi | subin.mulmi@nationalityforall.org | Nepal | Nationality For All (NFA) | Statelessness and gender; Meaningful participation of stateless activists; Solidarity and statelessness | Asia Pacific South Asia Nepal | |
| Bongkot Napaumporn | b.napaumporn@unimelb.edu.au | Thailand Australia | Graduate Researcher | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Statelessness and migration, Human agency of stateless persons | Thailand Japan |
| Yagana Naseer | naseer@unhcr.org | Australia | UNHCR Canberra | Australia New Zealand and the Pacific | ||
| Samanwita Paul | samanwitapaul@gmail.com | India | Doctoral student | Jawaharlal Nehru University | Gender-based forms of statelessness, Reproduction of Statelessness, Rohingya Refugees | South Asia India Bangladesh Myanmar |
| Elaine Pratley | Australia | Founder | Peace Inc. | |||
| Shuchi Purohit | shuchi.purohit@nationalityforall.org | India | Researcher Coordinator Lecturer | Nationality of All OP Jindal Global University | Domestic (Indian) and international law on statelessness, Digital identity and Legal identity | Regional focus on Asia Pacific |
| Elizabeth Rhoads | elizabeth.rhoads@ace.lu.se | Sweden | Lund University, Center for East and South-East Asian Studies | Citizenship, Statelessness, Civil documentation and legal identity, Housing, Land and property rights – including for displaced persons | Myanmar Indonesia Southeast Asia | |
| Amit Sen | sena@unhcr.org | Thailand | Senior Statelessness Officer | UNHCR Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific | Statelessness, Legal Identity, Gender Equality, Child Rights, International Humanitarian Law | UN-ESCAP Member States |
| Mohammad Shahabuddin | m.shahabuddin@bham.ac.uk | United Kingdom | Professor of International Law & Human Rights | Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham | International law, Iinternational human rights law, Minority rights, Self-determination, Citizenship | South Asia Bangladesh |
| Jordana Silverstein | jordys@unimelb.edu.au | Australia | Australian Research Council Future Fellow | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Histories of statelessness,Histories of the UN statelessness conventions,Oral histories of statelessness, Statelessness and migration | Australia |
| Jyoti Singh | jyoti.singh8@gmail.com | India | PhD Scholar | University of Delhi | Statelessness, Refugees, International Humanitarian Law | India, South Asia, Europe, Latin America |
| Lili Song | lili.song@otago.ac.nz | New Zealand China | University of Otago | Nationality law | New Zealand China | |
| Veronica Soon | veronica.soon@ law.ox.ac.uk | United Kingdom | DPhil in Law student | University of Oxford | ||
| Christoph Sperfeldt | christoph.sperfeldt@mq.edu.au christoph.sperfeldt@unimelb.edu.au | Australia | Senior Lecturer Honorary Fellow | Macquarie University/ Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Asia Southeast Asia Cambodia | |
| Tom Temprosa | temprosa@umich.edu | Philippines United States | Ateneo de Manila University School of Law University of Michigan Law School Supreme Court of the Philippines - Philippine Judicial Academy | Law on Statelessness, Refugee Law, Internal Displacement, Human Rights Law, International Law | Philippines Indonesia Bhutan United States | |
| Aashish Yadav | aashish.yadav@student.unimelb.edu.au | Australia | Graduate Researcher | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Citizenship deprivation, Right to a nationality, Prevention of statelessness | India South Asia |
| Chandraprakash Yoganathan | chandrucprk@gmail.com | India | Senior Fellow | Loyola College Chennai, India (PhD from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India) | Mixed Migration, Refugees, Statelessness, and Citizenship | South Asia with a special focus on India and Sri Lanka. |