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. It covers all countries in the region including Iran and Central Asia.
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.
For enquiries, email law-statelessness@unimelb.edu.au.
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| Name | Country of Residence | Position | Institution | Key Areas of Research | Key Countries Region of Research | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Anne Maureen B Manigbas | am.manigbas@gmail.com amanigbas.snap@gmail.com | The Phillippines | Ateneo de Manila University - School of Law | The Phillippines | ||
| 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 |
| Christoph Sperfeldt | christoph.sperfeldt@unimelb.edu.au | Australia (Melbourne) | Senior Lecturer Honorary Fellow | Macquarie University Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Asia Southeast Asia Cambodia | |
| Chuah Ee Chia | eechia@iskul.my | Malaysia | Chairperson | Iskul Sama diLaut Omadal | Statelessness, Sama diLaut, Bajau Laut, Stateless semi-sea nomadic children | Malaysia |
| Chulhyo Kim | chulhyo.kim@gnu.ac.kr | South Korea | Gyeongsang National University | Birth registration, Migrant rights | South Korea | |
| 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 | |
| Guofu Liu | australia2030@163.com | China (Beijing) | Faculty of Law, Beijing Institution of Technology | Migration law, Rrefugee law, Nationality law, Diaspora law, China | China | |
| Hannah Gordon | gordon.h@unimelb.edu.au | Australia | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Asia-Pacific Australia | ||
| 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 |
| Jordana Silverstein | Australia | Senior Research Fellow | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Histories of statelessness,Histories of the UN statelessness conventions,Oral histories of statelessness, Statelessness and migration | Australia | |
| Lara Chen Tien-shi | lara@waseda.jp | Japan | Founder Professor | Stateless Network Japan Waseda University | Migration, Identity of Stateless people | Japan Taiwan Malaysia |
| Lili Song | lili.song@otago.ac.nz | New Zealand China | University of Otago | Nationality law | New Zealand China | |
| M Sanjeeb Hossain | sanjeeb.hossain@bracu.ac.bd | Bangladesh | Director, Research | Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University | Rohingya refugees | Bangladesh |
| Mai Kaneko-Iwase, PhD (Law) | mai.kaneko@maastrichtuniversity.nl | Netherlands | Researcher | Maastricht University School of Law | Nationality of foundlings/children of unknown parents | Spain, Italy and Japan |
| Michelle Foster | Australia | Professor | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Australia | ||
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Nyi Nyi Kyaw | nnkster@gmail.com | Thailand | Chiang Mai University | Citizenship, Minority Rights, Nationalism, Race, Religion and Statelessness | Myanmar Thailand | |
| Radha Govil | Australia | Deputy Director | Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness | Global | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Veronica Soon | veronica.soon@ law.ox.ac.uk | United Kingdom | DPhil in Law student | University of Oxford | ||
| Yagana Naseer | naseer@unhcr.org | Australia | UNHCR Canberra | Australia New Zealand and the Pacific | ||
| Zoe Bell | z.bell@unsw.edu.au | Australia | Lecturer | School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales |