My current research concerns the causes and consequences of the increasing trend of forcibly displaced people and refugees around the world. We have many international legal protection mechanisms, including the UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Refugee Convention (1951) and its Protocol (1967), the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954), the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), the Declaration on Territorial Asylum (1967), and the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965) at the top, but they do not bring any substantial change at the bottom. Therefore, the number of forced migrants in the world is gradually increasing and now exceeds 117 million. Given this context, my research seeks to answer the following questions: Why do more people now lack human rights 70 years after the UN Declaration? Why are more people refugees 70 years after the Refugee Convention? Why do more people live in camps now than before? Why are more people stateless after 60 years of the convention on the reduction of stateless people? My research intends to understand the everyday struggle of forcibly displaced people and refugees within the local societal dynamics of the protracted situation. I analyze the roles and operations of states, statecrafts, and state institutions behind the mounting trends of forced displacement amid people’s everyday lived experiences. I critically examine international human rights modalities, international legal frameworks, and refugee protection regimes under the auspices of “burden sharing” and “global justice” by applying a bottom-up approach from the field of refugee life. At CSEAS, my research deals with forced migration, refugees, and human rights issues with the case of the Rohingya refugees living in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar.

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