Dr Samah Rafiq

Samah Rafiq got her PhD in international politics at the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in April 2023. She was a predoctoral visiting fellow at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies for the academic year 2019-20. She works on bordering and mobility control practices – their evolution, their securitization via the introduction of algorithmic technologies and risk management, and their increasing privatization. She has worked on migration policy in India as a researcher at the think tank India Centre for Migration. She is currently working on publishing her PhD research. She is the Convenor for the PG module Risk and Policy Analysis.

Journal article:

Rafiq, Samah. 2022. Linear borders, partition and identity in postcolonial South Asia. Geopolitics. 27 (2): 478-500. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2020.1757652.

Others:

Rafiq, Samah. 2020. Open borders: scapegoat in COVID-19 response. Yale Global. Published online on 9 April 2020. URL: https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/open-borders-scapegoat-covid-19-response

Rafiq, Samah. 2018. Crossing international borders: how mobile is the South Asian individual? NewsClick, published online on 23 March 2018, URL: https://www.newsclick.in/crossing-international-borders-how-mobile-south-asian-individual

Rafiq, Samah. 2016. Networks of rebellion: explaining insurgent cohesion and collapse. Civil Wars. 18(4):538-541. DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2017.1296807.

Borders, Migration, Risk analysis and management, South Asia, IR theory