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Priya Singh is Associate Director at Asia in Global Affairs, Kolkata, and IDRC Endowed Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre on Gender and Forced Displacement, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. She has previously been a Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.Her work over the past two decades has explored questions of nationalism, identity, gender, and marginality in Israel and the wider West Asian region, extending more recently to South and South-East Asia. Her current research examines migration, statelessness, and urban precarity through the lens of Bangkok’s evolving global-city dynamics, with a focus on how environmental change and peri-urban transformation intersect with shifting geopolitical and socio-economic processes. Her recent publications include the monograph "Contesting the Monolith: Intersectionality and Interfaces in the Jewish State of Israel" (Routledge, 2025) and the co-edited volume "Electoral Politics in Asia: Transregional Dynamics"(Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). She is Associate Editor of Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Refugee Studies. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM).
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Asia in Global Affairs Associate Director2017 - Present
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Publications (21)
- Spaces of Belonging and Statelessness in Urban Bangkok Save
- Migration in Asia: Informality, Precarious Citizenship, and the Governance of Mobility Save
- Deconstructing Electoral Democracy:Israel as a case study Save
- Introduction Save
- Introduction Save
- Conclusion Save
- Contesting the Monolith:Intersectionality and Interfaces in the Jewish State of Israel Save
- Quest for space: Marginalised voices from Israel Save
- Reframing the Refugee Crisis: Resistances and Solidarities Save
- Homogenising the heterogeneous :Construing the ethnic fabric of the Israeli nation Save