Susan Banki
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Climate-Related Issues
- Coercive Population Control
- Deportees/Criminal Deportees
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Forced Conscription
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
About Susan Banki
Susan Banki studies the political, institutional, and social contexts that explain the roots of and solutions to human rights violations and social justice abuses. In particular, she is interested in the ways that questions of sovereignty, transnationalism, and citizenship/membership have shaped our responses to conflict and injustice, particularly examining institutions such as the international refugee regime, diasporas, and the humanitarian system. Susan’s focus is in the Asia-Pacific region, where she has conducted extensive field research in Thailand, Myanmar/Burma, Cambodia, Nepal, Bangladesh and Japan on refugee/migrant protection, statelessness and border control. Her current projects include: the work of diasporas in responding to acute crises at home; humanitarian responses to complex displacement contexts; and the role of creative arts in transnational activism.
