Nasreen Chowdhory is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi. She received her PhD in Political Science from McGill University, Canada, where her research focused on repatriation and belonging in South Asia. A well-published academic, her work spans forced migration, citizenship, statelessness, and identity, with articles in journals such as Journal of Borderlands Studies, Citizenship Studies, Refugee Watch, and Peace Prints. She is co-editor of Gender, Identity and Migration in India (Springer, 2022) and contributes to ongoing projects on migration and refugee studies. She has also been the recipient of prestigious awards, including the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship (1999–2003) and the JRD Tata Award (1998–1999).
Priya Singh is an IDRC Endowed Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre on Gender and Forced Displacement, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, and Associate Director at Asia in Global Affairs, Kolkata. A well-published academic, her scholarship over the past two decades has explored questions of nationalism, identity, gender, and marginality in Israel and the wider West Asian region, and more recently in South and South-East Asia. Her current research focuses on migration, statelessness, and urban precarity in Bangkok and beyond, examining how environmental change and peri-urban transformation intersect with the city’s shifting geopolitical and socio-economic dynamics.